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To: Craig Freeman who wrote (20035)	4/10/2001 3:36:50 AM
From: Steve 667	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

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

To: Craig Freeman who wrote (20035)	4/10/2001 9:32:12 AM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

Craig, regarding the delay in actually taking the photo, by depressing the shutter release only half way down, you freeze all the camera settings, allowing the shutter to release instantly when the button is depressed the rest of the distance. Indoor photography with flash, particularly when the maximum amount of light is needed, results in long recycling times with the built-in flash (and shorter battery life for the whole camera as well). The answer here is an external flash. The Nikon 950 and 990 require a special bracket with special cable to attach to the camera (big profits for Nikon). When you mount Nikon's best quality TTL flash, you get magnificent results, almost instant recycling, and a big bill for the new equipment (about $400). With the external flash, the longest part of the recycle is spent waiting for the image to be saved on the flash card. In my 950, using the highest resolution (2.1 mp, TIFF), I wait about 25 seconds, which is too long. Your attachment to the Hasselblad is understandable. But economics is working in favor of digital, with problems, such as recycling time and print permanency, being worked out rather nicely as the technology matures. You won't get better permanency than you do with the Olympus dye sublimation printer right now, on any media. And even if the print fades, you can easily reprint from the stored image. In the end, the digital camera wins on the basis of cost per image. Art