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Close Examination of Fuji X-Series Lag Time

Started Nov 25, 2014 | User reviews thread
Easycass
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Re: Close Examination of Fuji X-Series Lag Time
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rlx wrote:

I will try to look at the sounds of the 18-55 and the 55-200 but in the mean time, here are measurements of the shutter lag I just made on older film cameras I still have. The oldest of the lot is the LeicaIIIC and it has the shortest lag at 40ms. The '70s vintage cameras are the Olympus OM-1 and the Pentax SPF and their lag is 50ms. The recent XE1 wins with a glorious 280ms. Astounding! I love the XE1 but I would love it better if its lag performance matched what I was used to get from film cameras.

I am using SonasoundP from SourceForge but this is Alpha software. Other sound analysis programs are SonicVisualiser and Audacity.

Here are the data,

Shutter lag of the LeicaIIIC. Camera set at 1/4 s but pretty old and no longer precise.

Shutter lag of the Olympus OM-1. Camera set at 1/4s.

Shutter lag of the Pentax SPF. Camera set at 1/2s.

Thanks for the info. Yes, I have a Nikon FE-2, which fires if necessary without a battery, totally mechanical, and I swear I can get a better response from it with the Nikon 85mm 1.4 than I get with the X-T1 with 56mm 1.2. When I am back home in the New Year, I will have a go with one of your suggested (or similar) sound recorders... Cheers...

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