Is olympus a good digital camera brand?

Ya im not a big fan of nikon coolpix cameras...their newest best ones are pretty nice, but for snap shot small digital camera just to go around and take pictures of friends and stuff, i wouldn't go with nikon. Now their SLR cameras....that's a whole nother spectrum i love their SLRs. they make wonderful lenses too.

 

olympus is an OK brand but there are a lot of better ones out there, such as cannon kodak sony...

 

Kodak is now only a memory, top brands, depending on intended use are(inho): Cannon, Nikon, Sony and Olympus, in no particular order.

 

I heard that Canon was good, but I can't find a camera with a faster shutter speed. There is always a delay. Anyone know of a good camera that doesn't have awful delay?

 

Check out the digital SLRs....

 

Yes, digitals do have much longer delay between squeezing the shutter and getting an exposure than old-fashioned mechanical cameras. The Olympus SP320 seems faster than my earlier Nikon 2200 or early Kodak digital, but it is still problematic in fast-moving situations.

This should be a prominent feature in reviews.

In the meantime, there are camera features built in to deal with this. Multiple shots & prefocus are two that come to mind. And practice, so you know your camera. Even in the Good Old Days, it was a problem, and the basic fixes were the same.

Mark