Please help - delay in capturing photo with new Rebel Sl1

Question

I bought a rebel SL1 a couple months back. It is replacing an older digital rebel from 9 years ago - I think it's an XT. I loved it when I first used it. Then I got it out to use over the holidays and there seems to be a crazy delay when taking pictures. I'm not sure if I have somehow messed up a setting or what the issue is. I'm using it in auto (green square). It's like its taking a long time for the picture to "record". Anyone have any ideas on how I might fix?

Answer 1

Basketlacey wrote:
I'll check both of those things. Is it possible that I have the image quality too high??? It is set on 18M which seems to be the highest?
No.  The camera will take images at any resolution "instantly" because the images are captured to an internal memory buffer.  The images are then saved to the SD card, which isn't as fast as the internal memory.  
The only way you get a delay due to image size if you you are shooting in "continuous" mode and you take enough pictures to fill the internal memory buffer... which forces the camera to slow down until an image finishes being saved to card to make room for another image in-memory.  
You would hear this because in "continuous" mode the camera will go "click", "click", "click", "click"........... "click".........."click"... etc.  (in other words several fast clicks in a row... then a long pause between each successive click once the memory buffer is full.)
The 2-second delay timer is more common.  People switch this on, don't realize it, then are suprised when each time they press the shutter button the camera wont fire... until 2 seconds elapse.  The 2-second delay is great for shooting on tripod when you don't have a remote shutter-release.  This is because touching the camera (on tripod) usually creates a bit of vibration.  That can show up in long exposure photos.  But by enabling the 2 second delay, you allow the vibration to settle down before the shutter open.  This mode is ALSO used to take self-portraits using the IR remote trigger.  The 2 second delay means you can press the button on the remote, then you have 2 seonds to hide the trigger before the camera fires (so you don't end up with photos showing you pointing the remote at the camera.)
Tim Campbell
5D II, 5D III, 60Da