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Originally Posted by VintageRacer
One of the major benefits of dSLR's over compacts or bridge cameras is the response time. As Josh mentioned, the 1/4000th of a second is how long the shutter is open for, but the camera might take 1/2 a second to focus, read the light levels to set the exposure before it actually takes the photos.
You might find if you put the camera in manual focus mode and pre-focus on a specific spot the camera reacts quicker (although this probably depends on the camera model I guess).
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I've noticed on compact cameras prefocusing and using full manual if available helps reduce the shutter lag but it is still significant compared to a dSLR.
Im not sure what the average on a compact/bridge camera is these days but I know the 20d is around 60ms and the 1d is around 34ms, non slr digital cameras i've used often have up to a second of shutter lag which makes them very annoying for action shots.