Is there a way to stop the delay when taking digital pictures?

I have a Nikon Coolpix 7600. I like the camera it takes nice pictures, it's just hard to get pictures of people and pets when there is a 3 second delay from when you push the buttton til it actually takes the picture. It's really irritating. Would getting a better memory card work or putting it on a smaller megapixel? Help. I've read the entire manual trying to fix the problem myself-no luck. Thanks.

This delay is part of the camera itself. It's not influenced by the type of memory card or the picture size.
The only thing you can do, is prefocus (by pressing the shutter button half way & keeping it there) and wait for the right moment to snap the shutter. This way the delay should be 'only' 1/10th second.

Set it to auto

I don't have a Nikon but there should be something about how to turn the delay off or at least shorten it! Look in the appendix, list in back of book alphebetized, under 'Delay,' 'Picture Delay' or something similar! Or if you bought it in a store bring it back and ask them same if ya bought it online, or Nikon must have a site, listed in the manual where you can ask or call them up & ask! Good luck!

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That delay is called shutter lag and it is constant. You cannot change it. Newer cameras have less shutter lag and professional cameras have almost none. Getting a faster card or lowering the mega-pixels will help once the picture has been taken not the initial touch of the button.
Sorry this does not really help you but at least you know what it is!!

A faster card - highly recommended for your camera - would shorten the time you have to wait before taking the next picture, but it would not shorten the time between pushing the shutter button and the camera taking the exposure.

Shutter lag cannot be stopped for most digital cameras. A 3 second shutter delay is not bad. Maybe you are too impatient. On the other hand, It could be that your camera is on auto mode and is deciding what to do to when taking pictures. Try another mode and see if that helps.

You have to hold the button halfway down for a couple of seconds to let it focus first then when you click it all the way down the camera will take the photo quickly. Either that or put it on a fast shutter setting if you have one.

Try taking it off of Auto. If you set the settings to whatever you are shooting the camera will react faster rather then when its on Auto it has to automatically focus and ajust for the conditions. Try playing around with the settings other then auto...you might be able to get the camera reacting a little faster.

I don't own a Nikon, but 3 seconds is horrible. I think all of the Fuji Finepix cameras (& probably Canon) are better than this.

Absolutely, you should pre-focus. Point the camera at a good focus point (it should also have about the correct brightness because the exposure is set also) & half press the shutter & hold it there for at least 1.5 seconds. Then you can press the shutter all of the way down when you are ready. You can usually do this even if the subject isn't in the frame initially (action photos).

Another trick that I've discovered on my Fuji camera, is that it normally makes a stupid shutter/motor-drive noise with its speaker when you trip the shutter. You can turn this sound off in the camera's menu system & the shutter delay is reduced significantly.