RE;not sure about other makes, but my small nikon 775 has tremendous lag on the full auto setting ,however it has several other settings ,indoors outdoors,daytime ,sunset ect. to work around this. of course useing no film,and memory now inexpensive,I shoot dozens of shots of about everything, then pick and choose only the best to printout.Im not a photographer obviously,but the few I do keep are great, I hope this helps when shopping > The delay between pressing the shutter button and when the cameral > actually snaps the picture. If you take posed shots all the time, this > really doesn't matter. But if you take spontaneous photos (which in my > opinion are infinitely more interesting) this is a huge consideration. > >