Everyone's looking for a point-and-shoot camera fast enough to catch Sally making the winning goal or Fido catching a Frisbee in midair. There are two main factors that impact your camera's speed: the time it takes to lock focus, which affects how fast the camera captures an image after you press the shutter button; and processing and write speeds, which affect how fast you can shoot the next image after you've just taken a picture. In our reviews, we refer to the first factor as shutter lag and measure it in both high-contrast and low-contrast situations. We call the second factor shot-to-shot time. Here are five of the fastest we've seen, with shot-to-shot times (in good light) of 1.5 seconds or less and shutter lags of 0.5 second or shorter in high-contrast conditions and 1.2 seconds or less in dim conditions.
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| Price | $237.99 to $599.44 | $338.30 | $159.99 to $319.40 | $169.88 to $199.95 | $229.95 to $279.99 | $189.99 to $210.53 |
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| Review date | November 12, 2007 | March 14, 2007 | February 15, 2008 | January 02, 2008 | February 13, 2008 | February 21, 2008 |
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