Shutter is lagging with sb-800 flash attached. flash goes off, 3 sec later shutter goes

You did not give enough information. If the flash fires when you press the shutter button then it seems to have taken a photo. You do not tell us what happens when you press the playback button on the camera or what camera you are using with the flash.

Is there not a dedicated flash setting ? Look in the manual and the menu system.

Hard to tell what might be going on without knowing what camera you are using or what shooting mode the camera is in.

What I do is set my camera to Manual. Then set the shutter speed for 1/60th a second. Try a shot with the SB-800 attached - firing directly at a subject that is about 6 feet away and check your image.

To expand the range of the flash, you can change the ISO setting. Adjusting from ISO 200 to 800 will allow you to expose more background. Depending on the camera you are using, this may also introduce more noise in the image.

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Check the flash mode. If Red-eye reduction is turned on, there'll be a delay while the red-eye lamp lights.

You have to enter the menu by pressing the "OK" button until the menu appears. By scrolling all the way down you will find a setting where you can choose "FULL menu". You can also choose to set up an individual menu.

To set shutter speed above 250 you have to ensure "FP" for high-speed sync is enabled on the flash.

//Peter

Definately a settings problem. The camera will only syncronize on one specific speed. Youe best bet is to use auto. For manual, you'll have to set the shutter speed at the sync speed.

Flash Sync Speed

up to 1/250 X-Sync Speed

up to 1/8000 FP High Speed Sync

Red-eye reduction
Red-eye reduction with slow sync
Rear-curtain sync
Slow sync
Front-curtain sync (normal) Flash Sync Modes

1) i-TTL: TTL flash control by 1,005-pixel RGB sensor, built-in flash, SB-800, SB-600, SB-400: i-TTL balanced fill-flash and standard i-TTL flash
2) AA (Auto Aperture-type) flash: Available with SB-800 used with CPU lens
3) Non-TTL Auto: Available with Speedlights such as SB-800, 28, 27, and 22S
4) Range-priority manual flash; available with SB-800 Flash Control

I think the flash is not grounded to the hot shoe or Hot foot .
Please note it needs to be cleaned and make good contact.
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Hey maryandfred,
The A720IS shutter lag on full auto-focus is .510-.610 sec., and on prefocused is .082 sec. The shutter lag for the SD850IS on full auto-focus is .580-.510 sec. and prefocused it is .080 sec.

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The G5 has a rather short shutter lag and a rather lengthy focus lag. So if you half depress the shutter release to focus, and then moments later fully depress the shutter release I expect you will find very little lag. But I would not expect a prosumer model to focus fast. hope this helps,