Herb Chong wrote:
i have no idea where you read that there is any sensor cleaning going on in a P&S digital camera. there isn't any camera out there without a removeable lens that needs sensor cleaning. as for AF delay, take a picture in AF mode and take picture in MF mode. that's all you need to know. anything else is pure BS.
Herb....
----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Gonzalez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 12:42 PM
Subject: Re: *ist D and Flash
Yes, I know we can measure the whole thing. But we know diddly squat about how that time is broken up. We *are* just speculating. I've never seen anyone post a link to a manufacturers site that shows the breakdown. There have been numerous opinions on this list, some that say most of the time is taken up by the sensor clearing, some that say that its the AF that is taking up all the time, some that say its something else. If you set one of those things on a tripod and keep taking pictures of something at a fixed distance, the shutter lag seems to be the same, without knowing what the mechanism/algorithm breakdown is, everyone's guess is as good as anyone else's. It could also just be the digital processor. These cheaper P&S's may not have the processing power that the better cameras have and this may slow down the whole process. And that is speculation also. :)
