RE: DIGITAL CAMERA QUESTION
The delay is why you're better off locking the camera at infinity. This should give you shots in focus from 30' and farther. It's not very often you get a plane close enough to be out of focus. With the focus locked the camera does not have to "think" it just snaps the shot. I took about 4000 shots with my old Dimage 5. The first 500 I tried to let the camera focus and got about 1 in 10 good shots. After that I locked the focus and got 9 out of 10 that were decent and 3 out of 10 that were good enough that I could use them for magazine publication.
TFLG