digital with the fastest shutter action? WHich?

[Sk8r]

Which digital camera has the fastest shutter action? Looking to stop action.

[ssbreef]

Canon 1Ds Mk III

[gregr]

The top two pro bodies [Canon and Nikon] will take pics at 1/8000th of a second. Not sure if you're aware of this or not but it takes an enormous amount of light to get those kinds of speeds. Most point and shoots will do 1/2000th. What kind of pics are you looking to take?

[Blazer88]

The IDs MKIII will do 1/8000, which is the same as any of the prosumer bodies (20/30/40D). The XT/XTi will do 1/4000. Either of those speeds are excessively fast for aquarium work (and not really possible given the amount of light)...what type of action are you trying to stop?

[Sk8r]

Flitty fish---and skaters on ice: sports.
Going to be doing some Christmas shopping.
But we have an EOS. We're just looking for a point-and-shoot that can give a good account of itself in the same applications, for another member of the household who wants a light, fairly one-hand sort of camera.

[maroun.c]

For that type of photography 1/2000 and even less is going to be overkill.
I suggest you also look at the price of those Pro Bodies.

[gregr]

I think the real issue is shutter lag not shutter speed. Shutter lag with point and shoots is a pain in the neck.

[TOYTEK]

I don't know how good a camera it is, but the Kodak Z712 advertises "Best-in-class* click-to-capture speed (0.26 sec.)"
MSRP $250
and the Z812 "... 0.23 sec." msrp $280

[KurtsReef]

Originally posted by gregr
I think the real issue is shutter lag not shutter speed. Shutter lag with point and shoots is a pain in the neck.

Biggest difference between even entry level DSLR's and P&S or "Digital Still" camera's is the shutter lag.

Do you want to wait a second or two or have the photo taken when you hit the release? With DSLR's its less than 1/2 second even with a horrible slr...good ones its in the 1/2000th second or better range

Same thing with start up..or ready to shoot after turning on.

[Sk8r]

THank you all: having the right terminology is going to help the search. Shutter lag does describe it.

[BeanAnimal]

My old P&S was a POS. The shutter lag was so bad that you could not capture a turtle walking accross the road!

[Sk8r]

Yep...I know that camera. I googled shutter lag and found a site that compares various brands. Among the worst is Minolta, which, it turns out, is what we have as our second camera.

Fujifilm and the Canon Rebel turn out to be much better. Casio is rated one of the fastest, but reviewers say it has a fuzzy focus, so that's no good---fast but fuzzy.

I've always liked everything Fuji company puts out, and I tend to like Canon. THis is going to be a bit of a search.

[BeanAnimal]

dpreview appears to be a fairly decent resource for point and shoots. We just got a Fuji (the one with facial recognition I think) and it takes good photos with very little shutter lag. She does not like to use the D50 and prefers the P&S.

[Sk8r]

Thank you, Bean! Fuji does seem one to look at.

[juniormc8704]

well to give you an idea, these were taken with a 1/2000 shutter speed.

[Sk8r]

But on what camera?

[juniormc8704]

those were on my old d40, i was merely trying to show what kind of detail you can get with things at high speed, with a shutter of only 1/2000

[photobret]

The Fuji cameras have awesome Shutter response, I shoot pro body D-SLRs but my little Fuji F30 is a great back up, the shutter response is awesome and it can go up to 3200 ISO so shooting in situations where no flash is allowed is also possible. People always seem to harp on about megapixels but the Fuji has produced double page spreads in magazines and its 6 mp! I wouldnt touch a Kodak and thats from selling them for years before becoming a photographer. If money is no object and you want amazing quality the you cant go wrong with a Canon G9, it a p&s but will grow with you as your skills develop.

[BeanAnimal]

We shopped for P&S cameras and chose the Fuji over the Nikon... I kept trying to force myself to buy the Nikon but the Fuji was just a better value.