Fuji FinePix 1400A sleek design, great 1.3 megapixel picture quality, a 3x zoom lens, and a great price!<<Exposure & Flash :(Previous) | (Next): Operation & User Interface>> Page 7:Shutter Lag & Cycle Time TestsReview First Posted: 6/6/2000 |
Shutter Lag & Cycle Time Tests
When you press the shutter release on a camera, there's usually a lag time before the shutter actually fires. This time is to allow the autofocus and autoexposure mechanisms time to do their work, and can amount to a fairly long delay in some situations. Since this number is almost never reported on, and can significantly affect the picture taking experience, we now routinely measure it.
On the F1400 Zoom, we found the shutter lag time with full auto focus to be about 0.62 seconds, which is fairly fast. Average times for cameras we've tested are currently around 0.8 seconds (as of May 2000). Alternatively, shutter lag with prefocus (a half press of the shutter button before the actual exposure) is only 0.17 seconds, which is also faster than the average (typically 0.2 seconds or so).
The camera apparently has no buffer memory, as the shot to shot cycle time at the maximum resolution and image quality setting is approximately 4.3 seconds, which doesn't really change with the number of consecutive exposures. In the lower resolution settings, the minimum shot-to-shot cycle time is about 2.1 seconds. These are fairly speedy cycle times for an entry-level camera.
The F1400 Zoom takes about 3.6 seconds to start up and be ready for the first image and about 2.5 seconds to shut down. Going from Record to Playback mode took an average of 1.5 seconds while switching back from Playback into Record mode took around 1.4 seconds.
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