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Warning: I was reading a 1978 service manual and the shutter lag spec was way higher than I expected
It was for a popular SLR, and the listed spec was 85 milliseconds, which seems huge by today's standards. I found it in a PDF from a vintage camera archive site. Does anyone know if that was actually considered acceptable back then, or was it just a bad model?
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jade5408d ago
Can you imagine trying to catch a kid's smile with an 85 millisecond delay? You'd press the button for a birthday cake and get a photo of them crying because the cake is gone. They probably sold a lot of blurry pet pictures back then as "artistic." Makes you wonder how many perfect shots were just plain missed because the camera was still thinking about it. Did photographers just get really good at guessing the future?
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That 85ms spec is a real eye-opener. My old film SLR always felt a bit slow to fire, and now I know why. It makes you appreciate how far the tech has come, even for basic stuff like shutter response. I bet photographers back then just had to anticipate the moment way more.
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vera_campbell8d ago
Wow, I totally learned to just hold the shutter halfway down and wait for the shot!
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