CRAIG, RE: I own a nice digicam (a Nikon 990) that is capable of taking hundreds of pictures per CF card but the camera insists on making me wait 5-10 seconds between pictures. Press the button, hold it down while it focuses, wait for the flash unit to recharge and then ... THEN ... it takes a picture.
Craig, you can avoid the focus delay by manual focusing as follows: Press the focus button and at the same time turn the command dial and bring the subject into focus in the LCD window. Let go and the focus will stay locked. There will be no delay of any such 5 to 10 seconds when you press the shutter! The picture will take instantly. It will also stay focused at that distance and the distance will be shown in the LCD monitor as well as the control panel.
The really neat feature is that the camera remembers this distance. By pushing the focus button once, you go back to the auto focus. You can shut the camera off if you want. When you turn the camera back on, and press the focus button and turn the command dial, whatever distance you had manually set in previously will immediately pop up and the camera will be focused to that distance. You can then adjust it from there and shoot, with no delay.
AUTO FOCUS -----> There if you want to use it. If you don't want to use it, you don't have to, and there is no delay, no penalty. Simply a marvelous camera!
As for the delay for the flash recharging, this is really not a function of the camera being a digital camera, but rather a function of the time of day. By taking pictures in the daytime you will eliminate this delay as well, and your pictures will be much brighter, you'll see!
When your dot com deal goes through, get that Hasselblad and send me a few of your best shots! Especially some shots of those things you are back to chasing. <gg>
Regards,
Steve 667 |
