I have a 350D and use a variety of lenses with the body. Recently after about an hour of shooting, my shutter release lags anywhere from 1-3 seconds. If I keep the shutter release button pressed down, it will eventually work. I attempted to change batteries when this happens with a fully charged unit, but the issue persists. I have also cleaned the contacts on the lens to body connections, reseated the CF card and ensured the CF card door is closed. I have also moved my lenses to manual focusing to see if that is the issue.
I am using the following lenses with my camera body:
Canon EF 70-200 L 2.8 IS
Canon EF 24-105 L 4.0 IS
Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
I Have the Canon Digital Rebel XT and have a similar shutter button problem, only sometimes when I hold the shutter button down I get what looks and sounds like flashes and still no picture. I am afraid to even use my camera any more. Could it be the batteries, I've tried putting in a new one, but have the same issues. I am inexperienced, new learner and love taking pictures. This was a big purchase for me, I hate that it isn't working right.I Have the Canon Digital Rebel XT and have a similar shutter button problem, only sometimes when I hold the shutter button down I get what looks and sounds like flashes and still no picture. I am afraid to even use my camera any more. Could it be the batteries, I've tried putting in a new one, but have the same issues. I am inexperienced, new learner and love taking pictures. This was a big purchase for me, I hate that it isn't working right.
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I suspect a chip in the circuit is heating up and slowing the processing down. It may be a problem that Canon can solve for you. They might even have a modification for it already.
Either way you should take it directly to Canon and have them look at it.
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This "shutter lag" is a common situation with most compact point&shoot cameras. The camera has to do a lot of work when you press the button, including acquiring focus, metering the exposure, and switching the circuitry from displaying on the screen to recording to memory. More sophisticated (and more expensive) cameras have more hardware to reduce this lag.
You can reduce the shutter lag by anticipating the action. Press the shutter release button halfway to focus and meter. Keep it pressed halfway until the right moment and then press it the rest of the way.
This is a common situation with many compact point&shoot cameras. Larger and more expensive dSLRs have additional hardware that eliminates this "shutter lag".
You can eliminate much of the lag by anticipating the peak of the action. Press the shutter release button halfway to focus and meter, and hold it there until the moment, then press the shutter release button the rest of the way.
This is a common situation with most compact point&shoot cameras. This "shutter lag" is because the camera has to do so much work when you press the shutter release button: focus on the subject, meter the light for proper exposure, and switch the electronics from viewing on the LCD to recording to memory. Larger (and more expensive) cameras have additional hardware to reduce this lag.
You can reduce the lag somewhat by anticipating the action. Press the shutter release button halfway to focus and meter. Keep it pressed halfway until the right moment, then press it the rest of the way to take the picture.
No. The shutter lag is due to the camera needing to focus and meter the light. The size of the memory card makes no difference to the speed. A faster memory card might let you take another picture quicker, but the difference would only be a small fraction of a second.
Shutter lag is simply a fact of life for most point&shoot cameras. You can reduce it somewhat by anticipating the action, pressing the shutter release button halfway to focus and meter, then pressing the button the rest of the way when the action peaks.
This is a common situation with many compact point&shoot cameras. Larger and more expensive dSLRs have additional hardware that eliminates this "shutter lag".
You can eliminate much of the lag by anticipating the peak of the action. Press the shutter release button halfway to focus and meter, and hold it there until the moment, then press the shutter release button the rest of the way.
False low-battery warnings, focusing, and metering problems may be the result of poor contact between the body and certain lenses. Try removing your lens and thoroughly cleaning the contacts. I would recommend using a contact cleaner, but rubbing alcohol will also work. Remember that the whole ring needs to be cleaned. If that does not work, try scraping the battery contacts.
This is "shutter lag," the delay between pressing the shutter release button and the camera actually taking a picture. This is a common situation with many compact cameras. The camera has to focus on the subject, meter the exposure, and switch the circuitry from displaying on the screen to recording the image and saving it in memory. More sophisticated (and expensive) DSLRs eliminate this shutter lag by having more dedicated hardware for this.
With a compact camera, you can reduce the shutter lag by anticipating the shot. Press the shutter release button halfway to focus and meter the exposure. Continue to hold the shutter release button halfway until the right time, then press it the rest of the way.
After the focus is confirmed, the Shutter-release time lag for the DiMAGE E201 is approximately 0.4 second. If the shutter-release button is depressed in a quick motion without making any pause to confirm focus, approximately 1.9 second is necessary.
The G5 has a rather short shutter lag and a rather lengthy focus lag. So if you half depress the shutter release to focus, and then moments later fully depress the shutter release I expect you will find very little lag. But I would not expect a prosumer model to focus fast.
hope this helps,
Thats going to be a problem with most digital cameras in that price range (and even some $$ ones)
really the only thing I can recommend is PF.F.S. That would be Pre-Focus -- Frame -- Shot. Many people try to frame a photo up then focus/shot all in one, but this does not always work.
So if your looking to speed things up a little, just half press the button to get a prefocus and then do your magic.
Really everything I talked about above was Focus-lag, not actually shutter lag. But since this is often confussed I thought I would add it in.
I Have the Canon Digital Rebel XT and have a similar shutter button problem, only sometimes when I hold the shutter button down I get what looks and sounds like flashes and still no picture. I am afraid to even use my camera any more. Could it be the batteries, I've tried putting in a new one, but have the same issues. I am inexperienced, new learner and love taking pictures. This was a big purchase for me, I hate that it isn't working right.
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