Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/13

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Subject: [Leica] X-1 Response Time
From: r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard Taylor)
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:23:00 -0500
 
I just took another look at the response times Sean Reid published.   
Since they include his reaction time and he reports a pre-press  
response time on the order of a quarter of a second, that means the  
camera is responding essentially instantaneously in that mode.

Our personal response times vary but I read somewhere that they are  
typically a few hundred milliseconds.  Mine is about 330 mS, at the  
long end of the scale, but then I'm getting to be an old codger.   
Younger people are faster.

I measured mine with my M7 (camera response time about 10-15 mS) a few  
years ago when I was trying to figure out why my then new Olympus C-60  
was so slow to respond.

Focus time is a whole other issue, but from the looks of the data,  
once you've got it, the decisive moment is yours!

Regards,

Dick