Re: [Leica] M7 shutter lag (or lack thereof?)

["J. Gilbert Plantinga" <gilplant@hvc.rr.com>]

Thanks. It sure doesn't feel like there's any lag at all, and I do most 
of my shooting in split-second street situations, as in how many 
milliseconds are there in a New York minute!

Gilbert

On Tuesday, July 30, 2002, at 09:06  PM, Peter Klein wrote:

> "J. Gilbert Plantinga" <gilplant@hvc.rr.com> wrote:
>
>>> On Monday, July 29, 2002, at 08:38  PM, Peter Klein wrote:
>>> 100-120ms (1/10) sec shutter lag with the M7
>
>> Where did you get this information? I certainly haven't noticed any
>> lag.
>
> Gilbert:  I'm going to have to take back the 100 ms figure for the M7
> shutter lag.
>
> I was going by the review of the M7 in this month's Popular
> Photography. It says that the shutter lag tested at 1/10 second (100 
> ms).
> The Konica Hexar tested at 120 ms.
>
> After your post, I checked some other sources, and I get different
> information there.  So the Pop Photo figure could be wrong or a 
> misprint.
> Or it could be the actual lag of their particular sample, as opposed to
> Leica's spec.
>
> Erwin Puts gives the M7 shutter delay as only 12 ms.
> http://www.imx.nl/photosite/leica/mseries/m7.html
>
> As does this site:
> http://www.photo-start.com/news/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowMessage&Id=24
>
>
> What makes it more confusing:  For the M6TTL, you'll find that Leica 
> touts
> the 10-12 ms shutter delay.
> http://www.leica-camera.com/produkte/msystem/m6ttl/index_e.html
>
> But for the M7, they don't mention a shutter delay:
> http://www.leica-camera.com/produkte/msystem/m7/index_e.html
> And I don't find it in the PDF product brochure either.  So Leica didn't
> help us get the right answer.
>
> Does anyone know why Pop Photo and Erwin have such different results re.
> the M7 shutter lag?
>
> --Peter Klein
> Seattle, WA
>
>
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