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I was testing it the other day.

I was shooting a girl returning the ball with her head. The shutter was pressed axactly at the moment the ball touched her head. In about ten tries, i got very much resuts like this- the distance from the head was 30-70 cm.

In other examples also, shutter delay in M8 showed to me to be for sure faster than my 1Ds.

 

If only the wake up time would be shorter.

One has to remember to wake up the camera by a gentle press, before he puts it on the eye to sharpen. My Canon doesnt have a wake up time, so it was hard for me to learn that, an I lost some images because.

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There is no appreciable shutter delay in the M8. It's dwarfed - by several orders of magnitude - by the human neuro-muscular delay. That's what the ball hitting the girl's head is capturing - not shutter delay.

 

Cool pic, Marko!

 

Jeff

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Mustafa - For reasons best known to Leica they gave the M8, what some of us think anyway, a horrible mechanical component to the shutter release. It might, as it is doing with me, take quite a bit of getting used to. Others reject the criticism.

 

There have been discussions in other threads concerning the shutter release which may or may not help you if you do a search. There might be an improvement coming in a firmware update. Underneath the mechanics of the shutter release there is a beautiful electronic release being kept from us; confirm this for yourself by setting the self timer to 2 seconds, turn the 'release' selector to self timer, and take shots to discover just how sweet the underlying electronic component of the release is.

 

.......................Chris

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In this case I found that the delay my brain-finger would take (trying the best) is more relevant than the M8 shutter delay.

 

M

 

By the way this is a 100% crop from a 50/1.4 taken at f2...

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no timer...:o :o

 

Still when I shoot portraits I feel the image is just off...

 

Thanks for the sample image of the ball... don't you think that with an M6 the ball would be far closer to the head?

 

AdiM

 

It's the feel of the shutter that's at play. There is virtually no lag.

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From what the leica folks have told me the shutter lag on the M8 is actually far faster than many DSLR's and after about 12k in images i tend to agree, never had a problem with shutter lag. partly maybe what you are feeling is the 3 step stage of the release but if you get to the second stage and shoot there is very very little lag

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There is virtually no lag. It's the clunky 3 stage release that people mistake for lag. Once you get used to it -it's a s fast as your reflexes allow. With the M8 I had to learn to stop leading the action to allow for lag and just fire at the precise second I wanted to capture.

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I have gotten in the habit of holding the shutter half-way down before my action shots.

 

This does not work well when the lighting is changing, of course. I did some surf shots last weekend and kept releasing and half-pressing so as to defeat the effect of clouds passing in front of the sun.

 

After some 4-6,000 shots, I can discern no difference between the M8 and my M4 or M6 -- as far as the shutter lag goes. I prefer the M8 by a large margin, following 37 years of M usage.

 

This digital stuff and raw are the photographers best friends.

 

Marko, it sounds like you have the "broken" power switch that requires a touch of the shutter release to wake up the camera. There are several of us with this "feature" in our M8. Coincidentally, mine came during a firmware upgrade (probably not caused by the upgrade).

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No no, its the sleep wakeup that I mean.

I never (almost) turn the camera off, but when I put the switch ON, it turns on without touching the shutter button...

 

If the camera goes to sleep (2min for me) the time for it to wake up is about 1sec.

That is too much- imagine pointing your M7 to the subject an pressing the shutter button- nothing, then again- it takes the picture that is already gone...

 

 

M

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No no, its the sleep wakeup that I mean.

I never (almost) turn the camera off, but when I put the switch ON, it turns on without touching the shutter button...

 

If the camera goes to sleep (2min for me) the time for it to wake up is about 1sec.

That is too much- imagine pointing your M7 to the subject an pressing the shutter button- nothing, then again- it takes the picture that is already gone...

 

 

M

 

Sorry, Marko. I have disabled the sleep mode on my M8, as well. I've got enuf batteries to allow me to leave it on all the time.

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Marko, I have taken about that many pix -- with screen review on 3 secs -- over a 3-hour piriod.

 

I am now in the practice of changing batteries when the indicator shows only one segment remaining. This because low battery was one of the suspected reasons for SDS but also because when I ran a battery down it reset my image counter.

 

As you suggest, these batteries really hang in there. I don't know who makes them or why they had to be such a funny shape, but the work right.

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