Digital shutter-lag

The Minolta Dimage Xt camera is terrific as a visual notebook — small and light enough to fit in a shirt pocket, and with no protruding lens. But there is an infuriating lag between pressing the button and taking the picture which means one cannot use it for capturing Cartier-Bresson-type ‘decisive moments’.

Given that, this birthday picture is a small miracle, even if it is blurred.

Thinks…. Now if I had a Nikon D70…