Re: Point & shoots, no improvement as long as sensors stay SMALL

On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 10:21:07 -0800, SMS <scharf.steven@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

IDIOT ALERT! wrote:

I hope you enjoy all those warped bats and shrunken or stretched bodied
high-divers that are caused by focal-plane-shutter distortions. Anything that
moves fast when taken by any moving-slit imaging system causes this. Care to see
some helicopter photos done by DSLRs where the blades are bent in spirals?
There's tons of those on the net.

Dear Mr. Idiot Alert!:

Helicopter blade and sky diver photos are immaterial. The issue is that
with a P&S you cannot capture most sports action unless you can predict
when the bat will swing, or when the ball will hit the glove. We're
talking about times that need to be less than 2/10 of a second
_including_ autofocus time, and even the newer point and shoot cameras
with shorter shutter lag won't work.

You really need to do some research into shutter lag times on various
cameras. You need to look at hard numbers, not general statements about
the shutter lag, like "short" or "pretty good" or "really fast." You can
start your research here,
"http://www.cameras.co.uk/html/shutter-lag-comparisons.cfm";.

Also, what you appear to not understand is that shutter lag has two
components, the actual lag, plus the auto-focus time.

In sports photography there's another component as well, and that's the
frame rate. You often want to shoot multiple frames as fast as possible,
and this is an area where the limitations of a point and shoot are even
more apparent (look at the five photo times on the web site above). With
a D-SLR you can shoot multiple frames per second, with a P&S it's
multiple seconds per frame.

Thanks for revealing your lack of skill as any photographer worth knowing. ANY
photographer worth his craft wouldn't sit there hoping to depend on ANY camera
to auto-focus for them in that scenario. Depending on your camera to focus for
you will only ensure that you miss the important shots more often than not.

Thanks too for revealing your ignorance about frames per second. Everyone that
knows more than you about various makes and models of cameras can now clearly
see the depths of your ignorance.

.

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