Quote Originally Posted by Flashram_Peter_AUS
Hi Picco007 (now that is funny),

With the G1, trying using it in TV mode and setting the shutter speed up to around 250 - 500 and let the camera work on the aperture itself. Remember for fast moving cars you need to do panning shots and that is where you will need to have fast shutter speed to capture the car, with a little motion to it. Really for that type of work you need a fast lens to get the image sharp, I have a G3 (considered the better of the G1 - G5 series of cameras) and found the shutter lag from the time I pressed it, to when it took the image really disturbing and peeved me off a bit, considering the camera cost me nearly $1,500Aus. I now shoot with a 10D and am able to use my lenses again, as I wanted to learn and not waste film trying, hence the purpose of the G3 at the time of buying. Thought I would use the G3 for a while, get the settings right in my head from shooting and seeing right away and then was going to move those settings over to film. Now I don't really need to use film most of the time.


Hope that helps. Try a DSLR in the camera store with a 50mm lens and then compare that to your G1 and the A80, you will notice the difference in the shutter lag, on the DSLR it just isn't really there, although camera shake is less forgiving in a way as well.




Thanks for your reply. I thought that I needed to find a digital camera that had a shutter speed of better than 1/1000. I have seen a few pictures that were done somewhere in the 1/1500 to 1/1700 range to get better pictures of fast moving cars. I will try that this weekend and I will try out the TV mode at that shutter speed. Do you think I need to move to another camera? I would like to stay with this G1 but we'll see what happens. Thanks again for your reply.

Ronnie