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Subject: [Leica] Marty, shutter lag in digital M
From: benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney)
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 10:31:25 +1030
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Yes, but they are all cited from the manufacturers' data and are very
likely to be measured different ways.  At least when I measured a pile
of cameras a consistent way years ago, my results varied widely from
these numbers depending on how I measured them.

Marty

On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Robert Meier <robertmeier at usjet.net> 
wrote:
> Marty --
>
> Here is a table of lag times for different cameras from Wikipedia:
>
>
>
> Camera  Type    Shutter Lag [ms]
> Nikon Coolpix L3        Digital Point and Shoot 1800
> Nikon Coolpix S550      Digital Point and Shoot 590
> Panasonic DMC Lumix FS20        Digital Point and Shoot 480
> Canon PowerShot A590 IS Digital Point and Shoot 350
> Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W80 Advanced digital Point and Shoot        150
> Pentax MZ-50    Amateur 35mm film SLR   120
> Konica Minolta Maxxum 7D        Advanced amateur APS-C digital SLR with 
> built-in image stabilization    117[1]
> Sony NEX-5      Amateur APS-C digital compact camera    115[2]
> Minolta Maxxum 9 (de)   Professional 35mm film SLR      90[3]
> Leica M8        Professional digital rangefinder        80
> Leica M9        Professional full-frame digital rangefinder     80
> Sony Alpha DSLR-A850    Professional full-frame digital SLR with built-in 
> image stabilization   74[4]
> Sony Alpha DSLR-A900    Professional full-frame digital SLR with built-in 
> image stabilization   72[5]
> Minolta XD-7    Amateur 35mm film SLR   60
> Nikon D300s     Amateur APS-C digital SLR       53
> Sony Alpha SLT-A77      Advanced amateur APS-C digital SLR-alike with 
> built-in image
> stabilization and electronic 1st curtain        53[6]
> Canon EOS-1D Mark IV    Professional APS-H digital SLR  49
> Nikon D3s       Professional full-frame digital SLR     43
> Nikon D3x       Professional full-frame digital SLR     40
> Canon EOS-1D Mark II    Professional APS-H digital SLR  40
> Minolta XE-1    Amateur 35mm film SLR   38
> Nikon F6        Professional 35mm film SLR      37
> Sony Alpha NEX-5N       Amateur APS-C digital compact camera with 
> electronic 1st curtain        22[7]
> Leica M3        Professional 35mm film rangefinder      16
> Leica M7        Professional 35mm film rangefinder      12
>
>
>
> On Nov 6, 2012, at 4:11 PM, Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Just to clarify - I don't mean that the lag includes the time to
>> focus, I mean once the focus is locked, the lag includes pressing
>> through the first detent where the AF engages, to the shutter release
>> and then firing.
>>
>> There is no industry standard, as far as I can tell, for measuring 
>> shutter lag.
>>
>> Marty
>>
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