How long is the shutter lag? In other words, when you press the button to take a picture, is there a delay?
1788924
The delay before shooting isn't very noticeable to me.... I love my camera! Great scene capabilities... and effects.
1788925
The lag can be as much as 15-20 seconds if you are using certain scene modes - for instance night shots. That is the primary reason I sold this camera on ebay a few months after I got it. It takes great photos, and some of the scene modes - like museum - are great, but I missed a ton of cool opportunities in the night markets in China because of slow processing. Much slower, in fact, that my 2005 era canon digital elph that I had hoped this camera would replace. :-/
1788926
I have not found any delay. However, I'm just an amateur when it comes to taking pics, so I'm not sure how important it is for you to know the length of the shutter lag.
1788927
It's a substantial about if your taking pictures of anything with movement, such as kids or pets. It's even worse with the flash on.
1788928
I'm not sure of the exact time of the shutter lag, but I'd guess it's around a 1/4 second, maybe a tad longer. I've only had a couple situations where I wished it had no lag at all, but it does have a little lag. Much shorter than the other point-and-shot digital cameras I've had. I think about the only way to eliminate ANY lag is to go with a digital SLR, but their bulk/weight doesn't work for me for vacation snapshots.
1697917
Nope, it has a quick shutter lag speed, I believe it's called. This was the number one priority for me too when researching cameras. I'm happy with this one. It also takes good pics in low light on the right setting and good action shots. Very happy with the camera for the price and size.
1409502
Yes, I must wait for about a second or two for the camera to reach focus. This is in the program [P] mode, or the Auto. Also, if I see a perfect picture, there is a noticeable time lapse between when I press the button and the shutter "releases" [electronically]. This means that on many occasions I have to take another picture and hope for better.
2060330
Hi, I have not noticed a lag between the shutter and the photo. And I find the Lumix to be an excellent point and shoot. One of the very best that I have tried.Harry
709150
Yes. The camera has a "self timer" option. When composing your picture, pressing the Function button brings up the timer option where you can select the default 10 second delay, or choose an alternate time delay. Then press the shutter button and the camera will flash a warning light (and beep), increasing in speed until the shutter is released and the picture is taken.
1663830
Try this configuration: single point Flex Zone, back button focusing, and "manual + Auto focus" that combo works amazing for me. There is no shutter lag, but you do need to use advanced focusing techniques to get focus as fast as you would on a DSLR, but it blows compacts out of the water.
1150614
Shutter lag seems minimal. But no Digital camera made so far can be as fast as my old Nikon F film camera simply because it takes a finite time to write the image to the SDHC card. With film recording the image on the film was instantaneous.
1505632
No, no delay when snapping pics. That was one of my biggest must haves as I have a young child that is always on the move. I've been very happy with this camera. No problems with the battery life. I did buy extra batteries though so I always have an extra one ready to go.
1577692
There is not much of a delay between pressing the button & taking a picture, however there is a noticeable delay between taking a picture & the camera being ready to take another picture. I find this annoying at times.
558336
Shutter lag time.... I don"t know, or even how to calculate that. But the first pictures were at my Daughters dance. I thought i just didn't know how to run this midget camera but most of those pictures were very blurry.
959173
Shutter lag isn't really a problem, but I would be concerned about the need for low ISO (200 max) unless you're shooting b&w;, in which case, it is simply a lovely camera.
1882182
According to my understanding the delay time is the time that it takes for the camera to recover after it has taken a shot.
624576
I have found that there is a 2 - 5 second delay between shots, but I'm not sure how this compares with other cameras.
223383
I am not an expert photographer but I think the shutter lag is too long. Just took my camera to Africa for three weeks. Overall, I was very pleased with it, good zoom, great pictures. My photos were almost as good as those with much bigger fancier lots-of lens type camera. but I did have to wait too long to snap a second shot and I know I missed some photos.
188100
Shutter lag when prefocused = less than 1/10 of a secondShutter lag with autofocus = about 0.6 secondsShot to shot delay without flash = 4.7 seconds between frames with minimum review time On, 4.2 seconds with review OffShot to shot delay with flash = 7.8 seconds between frames with minimum review time On, 7.3 seconds with review Off
1490344
There is a long wait period between fully depressing the shutter button (this is after focusing with a half press) and capture. By the time the picture is taken the moment is well over. I have a Canon G3 - it does not have a similar issue, however Canon's support is unwilling to acknowledge that there is a problem. Locking the exposure prior to the shot fixes the problem, but then you have to do this for each shot and it means another flash.
1221045
Quite unscientific, but an educated guess is about two seconds from press button, take pic, process/view, manually take next picture. Fastest camera I have ever used. Of course you can also use it in the "burst or continuous" mode and take multiple pics in one press. In that mode, it is of course, much faster as you are not displaying each pic until you stop and choose to view. Hope it helps.