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Subject: Re: Digital in Latin America Posted on: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 03:11:10 EDT

Richard Cline wrote:
> If you decide to go digital, be sure to get the camera well ahead of
> time so you can learn to operate it properly. Most of the digital
> cameras have a distinct delay between button pushing and the picture
> taking. For someone accustomed to a film camera the delay is the
> difference between a good photo and a bad photo.

This is pretty similar to the delay imposed by any other autofocus cameras
of similar form factor (i.e., the little tiny ones are slow and the larger
SLR-sized ones are pretty quick).

In almost all cases this is easily solved by learning to pre-focus - just
hold the shutter release halfway down and it'll take focus and exposure
measurements. Then when you actually push it the rest of the way it's very
fast.

miguel
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