 Kerryn M. Galea |
Slower than normal shutter reponse I have a Nikon D100 and I am getting frustrated with the time lag between taking the shot and the actual shot that shows up in the LCD screen. I have been told that some digital cameras do have a slower response time but compared to some other cheaper digital cameras mine seems to take forever. Does anyone else have this problem and do I over come it? I have had it serviced and they said it seems ok. I am really disappointed to the fact I want to get another camera but I spent so much on this one.
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
Is it noticeable enough that you think you'd be able to estimate the lag to a fraction of a second? Like half a second. There's a lag, but a camera like a D100 has a lag that would be measured in a few micro seconds. Or it could milliseconds, not sure of the correct prefix. But before you entertain thoughts of a damaged camera, check for something simpler. I'm familiar with 35mm digitals having a battery saving feature that turns the camera off when it hasn't been used for a time. So see if your's is set for that. The digital cameras that allow you to use the monitor as a view finder have such a long lag that you can count to a few before the picture is actually taken, so are you saying that your camera has a lag as long as those?
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Kerryn M. Galea |
Thanx for you reply Greg, what I mean is the time from when I press the shutter button to the time it actually takes the shot. I have owned 3 film Nikon cameras prior to this and never had this problem before. I used to use aperture priority before owning this camera but when I seem to use that on this camera because of the slower shutter speed to compensate for the wider aperture I end up with camera movement, and I can't always use a tripod. It probably would be about half a second to a second I suppose, which doesn't sound like much but if the subject moves slightly in that time it is blurred.
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Jon Close |
As Gregory stated, the shutter release of the D100 is near instantaneous. Are you sure the delay in taking the shot is not for the autofocus trying to acquire the subject? If so, there are ways to speed AF: AF assist light on a speedlight, pre-focus, or lenses with faster maximum apertures and faster AF motors such as Nikon's Silent Wave or Sigma's HSM. Or you can set the camera's AF mode to C (Continuous) which will release the shutter at full-press of the shutter button whether or not it has confirmed focus. If you are using the built-in flash, the shutter will not release until the flash is charged and the flash-ready light displays in the viewfinder. However, your first message seems to indicate that you're concerned with the lag between releasing the shutter and when the image displays on the LCD. That lag does not affect the image capture, that happens when you press the button. The lag here is in writing the captured file from the camera's temporary memory onto the loaded CF card. This lag can be lessened by using higher speed/capacity cards. But it shouldn't hold you up since you don't have to wait for the image to be displayed before taking the next shot. While the memory buffer of the D100 is limited compared to more current models, it can shoot at up to 3 frames per second and the buffer can store up to 6 shots before having to wait for a file to be written to the CF card.
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Todd Bennett |
Kerry, Also, make sure the exposure compensation is not set to some crazy number. I went out in the field one day going to photograph wildlife and the fist shot I took seemed to have about a second or longer shutter speed. I thought it was a dead battery. Swapped that out, shot another and the same thing happened. Then I looked at the shot I had taken on the LCD and it was white. I knew immediately something was wrong. Looked at the exp. comp. and it had somehow been set to +5. Set it to 0 and all was fine. I think some gremlins got in there trying to mess with me and set it so high.
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
Shutter lag and camera movement blur, or subject movement blur, aren't related in a cause and effect way. You mentioned aperture priority and using a tripod, but that's a slow shutter speed that causes the blur. And your iso may be set at 100 if you're familiar with using aperture priority and are having blur problems with a digital camera. If you put your camera on manual and set your shutter speed at 1/1000, regardless of what the aperture is, when you push the shutter button you'll hear the click right away. Do that as an experiment just to see the reaction time, not concerned about the image that gets recorded.
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