Camera shutter lag time.

2018, Inspiration, Q&A, Teaching point

The shutter lag is defined as the time between when:

  the photographer presses the shutter button  →  the camera takes the photograph

A minimal shutter lag is very helpful when trying to photograph the decisive moment.

Below I’ve compiled the shutter lag times of various 35mm cameras; the data is consistent with my own experience and it may surprise a few of you.

—Peter.

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Current Gear.

Inspiration, Q&A

A few of you have expressed an interest in seeing this list 😉

So, here goes…

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CAMERAS

—Nikon D850.

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—Nikon D500.

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LENSES

—Nikon 28mm f/1.4E.

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—Nikon 200mm f/2.

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I’ve been photographing with the D500 since May and with the D850 since September; the 28mm f/1.4 and 200mm f/2 lenses were also introduced in September.

The 28mm stays on the D850.

The 200mm stays on the D500.

The image quality from both set-ups is of a high calibre, to say the least.

Admittedly (and predictably) the one thing I’ve missed after all of these months is photographing with a rangefinder, but I think I have sorted that out.

(Hint: what’s old is new again.)

Happy New Year!

—Peter.

 

At the 100th meridian.

Inspiration

“If I die of vanity, promise me, promise me,
They bury me some place I don’t want to be,
You’ll dig me up and transport me, unceremoniously,
Away from the swollen city-breeze, garbage bag trees,
Whispers of disease and the acts of enormity
And lower me slowly, sadly and properly
Get [Gordon Downie] to sing my eulogy,
At the hundredth meridian
At the hundredth meridian
At the hundredth meridian
Where the great plains begin”

—At The Hundredth Meridian, The Tragically Hip.