Digicams are the success story of the decade. The world is taking more pictures than ever, thanks to convenience and low cost (never buy film again!). Photo sharing site Flickr has passed the two billion picture mark, every cellphone carries a camera and in my tourist-honeypot hometown, vacationers tote DSLRs. But while film is almost dead, there are still some things that the old school does better.
Shutter Lag
For landscape photography, this doesn�t matter, but for anything that requires (literal) split second timing, even a tiny delay means the difference between a perfect smile and a grimace, a touchdown and a heap of sweaty men. Digital cameras have delay built in at every step: Out of the box you have focus assist lamps, redeye-reducing bursts of flash, slow startup times and shutter lag.
DSLRs do better, but compacts � even Canon�s top-end G9 � has woolly feeling gap between pressing the shutter and taking a picture. Result? Frustration and missed pictures. There�s a reason Henry Cartier-Bresson called it the �Decisive Moment�. And that�s why he used a Leica.
Charlie Sorrel
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