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Camera types
Enlarging images
Zoom & manual controls
Batteries
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Do you need a camera that responds quickly?

With point-and-shoot cameras like the ones we tested, you must wait after each shot as the camera processes the image. As the digital point-and-shoot camera Ratings (available to ConsumerReports.org subscribers) show, most models let you shoot an image every few seconds, but a few make you wait 5 seconds or more. They may frustrate you when you’re taking photos in sequence.


Compact/subcompact camera.
  
Fujifilm FinePix S6000fd

   SLR camera.
Compact/Subcompact Cameras
  
SLR-like Cameras
   SLR Cameras

Typical next-shot delay:
2 to 3 seconds.

 

Typical next-shot delay:
1 to 3 seconds.

 

Typical next-shot delay:
Fraction of a second; barely noticeable.

     

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