Brian,
My E-510 manual calls that feature "Anti-Shock". I've never used it.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 4:04 PM
Subject: [OM] E-510 "feature"
> Hi all
>
> For a while I have been puzzled by a feature of the E-510 which I found
> annoying, but mostly it was a minor inconvenience. Until yesterday.
>
> I was photographing flowers ( surprise - surprise - roses again, but a
> different location) and there were fitful eddies of wind around as an
> overhead gale was working up. But the light was nice.
>
> Every time I pressed the shutter button there would be a pause of what
> seemed to be 2 seconds before the exposure was made. A lot can happen in 2
> seconds, and I was missing a lot of shots as the flower got moved again
> after resting.
>
> So I sat down and went over the controls. I was using the tripod, and had
> IS set to OFF, so that wasn't it. I checked the separate (button)
> control
> for self-timer. That was off.
>
> So what could it be?
>
> I went through the entire menu, and the very last entry is something I
> don't recall seeing before ( but probably did) called anti-shake. It was
> set to 1 second.
>
> I set that to OFF, and exposures became near instantaneous. :-)
>
> Brian
>
>
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