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Originally Posted by cornelious2
I knew you would take the shutter lag portion and ignore the part of the article that talked about what was important. That was just an article I found quickly supporting my argument.
no it talked about about shutter lag AND it talked about the transfer of the image to the buffer which takes some aspect of video processing, the more you talk the more I realize you really don't know how a digital camera works.
simple matter is this. All the sensor does is gather the light. after that the reading of this light has to get PROCESSED and stored into the buffer. The faster this happens, the quicker the shutter can work.
all the sensor does convert the light into an electronic signal so it can be analyzed.
The process of a digital camera is light hits sensor, sensor makes a signal signal is processed and sent to buffer, buffer is cleared (and image is compressed) and stored to slower media.
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I just realized one point we are both not addressing and I think I understand your viewpoint. the sensors most low end digital cameras (and even more so for phones) cant really handle the mega pixles they are rated for which is why there is processing between sensor and buffer. in a high end camera it is truly just a bus speed issue as to how fast the data from the sensor can trandsfer to the buffer and the shutter can close.
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If it were really a case of the hardware being incapable of processing fast enough to avoid blur, thus somehow dragging the shutter speed, the camera would be incapable of fast shutter speeds and freezing motion even in bright light. We know this is not the case. In bright light, the blur problem goes away. So the camera IS capable of high shutter speeds, it just does not compensate in software to boost effective ISO in low light, so as to avoid long shutter speeds and blur.