Sony MVC-FD87Sony announces an affordable 1.3-megapixel digicam with basic features, good quality pictures, and a dual-media storage drive!<<Exposure & Flash :(Previous) | (Next): Operation & User Interface>> Page 7:Shutter Lag & Cycle Time TestsReview First Posted: 5/4/2001 |
Shutter Lag/Cycle Times
When you press the Shutter button 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 using Imaging Resource proprietary testing.
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| Power On -> First shot |
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Time is delay until first shot captured.
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| Shutdown |
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No lens retraction to wait for, meaning zero shutdown normally.
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| Play to Record, first shot |
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Time is delay until first shot captured, about average.
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| Record to play (max/min res) |
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Shortest times are for image already processed to floppy, longer times are for image just shot, max & min resolution.
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| Shutter lag, full autofocus |
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About average.
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| Shutter lag, manual focus |
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A bit slower than average. |
| Shutter lag, prefocus |
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A bit faster than average. |
| Cycle time, max/min res |
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A bit slower than average, not bad for writing to a floppy though.
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Overall, the FD87 is about an average performer. Its shutter lag times are quite competitive, but its shot to shot time is average to a bit slower than average. (Although on the whole, surprisingly fast, considering that it's writing to a floppy disk.) Perhaps not the first choice for sports shooting, but overall, not a bad performance.
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