I need a Digital SLR with no shutter lag?
Looking for a camera, a digital SLR with little or no shutter lag. Needs to be at least moderate to excellent quality photos and hopefully HD video. Nikon or Canon possibley. Any ideas? Under $1000?
Very few DSLRs have any noticeable "shutter lag." Certainly nothing like on the compact digital cameras. Press the button, and the image taking is instantaneous.
I would suggest the Canon T3i or T2i. Outstanding image quality, HD video @60fps, and well within your budget.
It is literally impossible to have a shutter lag of 0
all DSLR cameras when used correctly will have very short shutter lag, mere milliseconds short
as for picture quality, that depends on your skill with a camera and knowledge of photography
under $1000, look at the Nikon D3100 and D5100 as well as the Canon T3, T2i and T3i
All SLR cameras (digital included) do not have shutter lag. Picture quality depends on your skills, the camera is only a tool. Not all dSLR's take video but most new models do. Go to http://bhphotovideo.com/...ovideo.com to window-shop.
Single Lens Reflex cameras can't be made to have no shutter lag. The way an SLR, digital or film works, is to both raise the flipping mirror and stop the lens down at the moment of exposure. These actions, though exceedingly fast, need time to occur between the time the shutter is released and the exposure is made.
The closest you can get to having ZERO shutter lag is by using a rangefinder or other (flipping) mirror-less camera. You will still be very slightly held back by mechanical and electronic connection though.
There's no such thing as a film or digital rangefinder that shoots video such as Leica, because these are dignified, professional cameras and certainly cost over a mere $1, 000.
MILC (Mirrorless Interchangeable-Lens Camera) and EVIL (Electronic Viewfinder Interchangeable Lens) cameras which are currently growing in popularity, are still under development and may not provide all the functionality of a DSLR but are an option under $1, 000 and will shoot video. Here is a link explaining them and gives models:
Any lag in DSLR perfromance is due to the auto focus delay. In decent light and with anything but a very low end lens, the delay is very, very slight. With higher end lenses with better focus mechanisms, focus is as near instantaneous as can be physically possible.
Having said that, there's no lens/camera combination that won't struggle under some conditions, to the point of not being able to focus at all. The lower the light level, the harder it is to get an AF system to work. Scenes with very low contrast are also a problem, even for the high-end stuff. Manual focus solves some of that problem, but trying to manually focus most consumer level DSLR bodies is another can of worms. Many consumer level lenses are very difficult to manually focus, and the tiny viewfinder on the cameras don't help.
I disagree with Mr Martyr above. Cameras like the Sony SLT models can do everything any other DSLR can do, and more. The only difference is that they don't have a mirror to flip out of the way each time you press the shutter button. OK, and they have electronic viewfinders. Everything else remains the same. They work exactly the same way, exposure works exactly the same way, you still use the same lenses.
There's no such thing as a camera without shutter lag. All DSLRs have short shutter lag and short AF lag, but that also varies with 1) type of lens you're using 2) amount of light availible 3) what you're shooting etc etc etc Check out the Rebel T3 and Nikon D3100.
In my opinion Fujifilm Finepix S8100fd 10MP Digital Camera is good one for you.