Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"We need a digital camera that can be switched on and fire off that first shot fast. It's not a commonly tracked statistic on any review site, and nobody seems to have this information for every camera. We were hoping other readers could inform us as to what small digital cameras can fire off their first pics in under a second (ideally under half a second). It needs to be small, but mostly, just really quick in operation. Thanks!"
dang.... just this last monday I pony'd up 100 big ones for a mew 8X AGP...are you saying I'm behind the times...?
(yeah, I know I am, but I just dont have the money to throw at constantly having the latest and greatest...nor the need for it...I got a 360 for games...so I have no need for this...I'm running a 3ghz Pent 4 with a gig of ram.....I dont plan on doing anything else major (since I just got my new vid card), for like 2 years...By which times I'll do a good upgrade...by then I'll probably go from a single core...to dual Quad core. :p