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| p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · For quick full-frame shooting, which camera and how to set it up? | |
Which full-frame camera bodies are the quickest to take a picture from an already powered-on state and how should a camera be set up to shoot as quickly as possible? The following is my attempt at an answer to these questions, but it is offered very tentatively and with a welcome to amendment or correction.
The components of greater or lesser quickness from a powered-on state seem to be 1) autofocus speed, 2) autoexposure speed, and 3) shutter lag. For multi-shot bursts, buffering speed would also be important.
According to a Wikipedia article on shutter lag, among the digital cameras (excluding film cameras), Sony cameras have the least shutter lag of the major full-frame brands, including Canon, Nikon, and Leica.
Sony 7 series cameras do very well post the original A7, which was slow. The A9xx and A1 bodies are not listed, but one would expect them to do at least as well as the A7xx series bodies since they are optimized for a high frame rate. Much of the data in the article is cited as coming from testing by Imaging Resource. Not all cameras from the four major full-frame brands are listed, with the most recent cameras absent from all brands.
How should a camera be set up for the quickest shooting? I think the short answer to this question is: Make the camera operate as manually as possible and preset it as much as possible. Each auto-function that is turned off saves the camera time. Of course, unless one is preset, turning these auto-functions off may require the photographer to take even more time to get the settings right.
To the extent that one can preset exposure in a given situation, one can save the camera time by operating in fully manual exposure mode or perhaps manual + auto-ISO mode. Switching to manual focus and presetting a zone of focus with an aperture suitable for adequate depth of field can save the camera time on autofocusing. I think that if one sets shooting priority in the menu to "Release" rather than "Focus," one should be able to not shift to manual focusing and to use or not use autofocus as each shot might require. Setting the autofocus area to a small or medium spot and turning off eye-priority and face-priority should also save the camera some time.
If one does not want to give up all these excellent auto-functions in order to pick up a few milliseconds, then the question becomes: Which cameras are fastest to shoot with all their auto-functions turned on? My bets would be on the A1, A9xx series, and the Nikon Z8.
Does the above seem right?
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