> Back in the olden days, cheap cameras had no latency at all. Some of 'em, yeah. Others where the lens has to come out of the body before you can take a phot

> Back in the olden days, cheap cameras had no latency at all. Some of 'em, yeah. Others where the lens has to come out of the body before you can take a photo, somewhat different. (And yes, I suppose you can leave them powered on to keep the lens out of the body but then you're risking scratches or mechanism damage when you put it away and they also aggressively auto-power off.)