How can I shot the moving objects with about 1 second delay between pressing the shutter button (of Kodak DC-260) and the actual picture? Regard and thanks, Alex Glumcher.

-- Alex Glumcher (ALEXGL@tibam.elex.co.il), December 14, 1998

Answers

Many digicams take a little time for autoexposure and auto-focus. (The DC260 does this as well.) You can greatly shorten the delay by half- pressing the shutter button, which will perform the focus and exposure computations, but not actually take the picture. Then, when you finally do press the shutter down all the way, the camera will fire in only a few tenths of a second.

-- Dave Etchells (web@imaging-resource.com), December 14, 1998.

Half pressing is fine for still objects. The problem is both focus and exposure may change with moving objects. One thing I do not quite understand is that the issue does not seem to be as pronounced in 35mm SLR cameras.

-- Naili Luo (naililuo@predev.com), December 16, 1998.