You know how you take the pic with a digital camera then there is a delay for what seems like ages before an image is captured, what is that about? and can I stop it doing that?
Im off to spectate at a rally down the borders way at the weekend but when I take pics of fast moving stuff ie rally cars at high speed you have to guess when it will be in the view finder when I press the button I end up with a pic of a boot or just the road

Any advice?

 

Its more than likely to do with the shutter speed... read your manual and find out how to speed it up in the settings.

Either that, or you have to focus first by semi pressing the button, then when its focussed, fully depress it.

 

Thanks chap

 

No probs...

If you can't sort it, shout again and i'll see what i can do for you

 

Buy a decent camera

Or follow the car with the camera (called panning) so whenever it takes the pic it will have the car in it!

 

What camera is it?

I had trouble with mine at the weekend (Fuji S7000) turned out the shutter speed and the apature had decided to change themselfs

 

Im not stupid mate, the time it takes in between pressing the button and taking a pic is about two seconds, I know what panning is FFS

 

He was trying to be helpful. Most digital cameras have a shutter delay. It's because theyre not very good cameras. Some of the more expensive compact digital cameras have very little delay but the only cameras with virtually no delay are digital SLR's.

 

Well if you know what panning is the why do you end up with a picture of the boot or just the road Most digital cameras have a delay and so you just have to learn to press the button early and keep the car in frame for a while.

I should know

 

Yeah i sorted my sony cybershot by going into the menu , i had a thing called (preview image) on and this gave me the same problem as you . but as soon as i changed it back it was fine , dont know if this will help though as it might be a diferent camera

 

It is called shutter lag, all camera's have it, but the better (more expensive) camera's have shorter delay time. (My Canon 30d has a shutter lag of about 0,25s including time to autofocus, and 0,065s prefocussed)

Most digital compact camera's have too long shutter lag for sport / cars.

Nothing u can do about it, exept buying a new camera.

Edit to add: you could try to pre-focus, most compact cameras have slow autofocus.