Hi Guys,
Lately I've been playing with my X1 exclusively manual mode (manual exposure and Manual Focal via hyper focal distance scale at f/8 mainly). My impression was that X1's shutter lag occurred because the camera was taking its time to meter and set the correct exposure.
By setting all exposure parameters manually and manually pre-focusing, I thought I would get rid of the shutter lag, which is annoying to me, specially for street photography and candids. However, the shutter lag is still there. I believe the camera is still calculating the correct exposure, even though it does not need to do it in this case
Anyone has a similar or different experience with this? Do you also believe the shutter lag is caused by a slow metering function? If so, it would be great if Leica could include in a firmware upgrade the possibility of "no metering at all" for those users who want to shoot completely manual and a not have the shutter lag.