Extreme Shutter Lag

Katie Swan

New member
I have a Nikon D60, and it used to shoot fine. Occasionally it still does, but most of the time there is a literal 5 second delay from when I push the button to when the shutter snaps. This happens in all settings, low light, high light, etc. Any ideas?
 

Fred Kingston

Senior Member
There's a timer setting in the menus for that camera that creates a delay for the shutter release... Sounds like your's got set to something you don't want... find it and double check it's set to 0 (zero)
 

Bob Blaylock

Senior Member
I have a Nikon D60, and it used to shoot fine. Occasionally it still does, but most of the time there is a literal 5 second delay from when I push the button to when the shutter snaps. This happens in all settings, low light, high light, etc. Any ideas?

Off the top of my head, I am thinking of autofocus as possibly being the issue.

I've noticed of my D3200 that sometimes it has more difficulty than other times getting the focus. In adverse conditions, it might take a few seconds to focus, or it might give up. The shutter won't go until the camera thinks it has focus. To some degree, this is perfectly normal and expected/intended behavior.

Have you tried going to a manual-focusing mode?

It seems plausible to me that something might be dirty inside your camera, that impairs its attempts to autofocus.
 

Mike D90

Senior Member
There is a mode where the camera will not release the shutter until auto focus has focus lock. Not sure what mode that is on your camera.
 

BackdoorArts

Senior Member
I just perused the D60 menus and there is no delayed shutter release as with others, so I'm with pedro thinking you're in Self-Timer mode.
 
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