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E-P5 shutter shock ...

Started Jun 21, 2014 | Discussions thread
sigala1 Veteran Member • Posts: 3,911
release lag time = short

eclipsechaser1 wrote:

Guys out of interest in the early days 'release time lag = short' seemed to play quite an important role. Not sure how it now interacts withy the new anti shock. Worth thinking of.

Also I noted some further settings which could contribute to issues

rel priority s

rel priority c

is on when sequentail shooting

half way release is

lens is

@op please do bare with us. I happen to believe you have an issue but there are so many more settings on the ep5

Tried a quick test with the 17mm f/1.8 lens at 1/100 sec

With release lag time set to short and varying the zero-second anti-shock setting, there was an obvious increase in sharpness when zero-second anti-shock was turned on.

With zero-second anti-shock turned on and varying the release lag time setting, I could not detect any difference in sharpness when I changed the release lag time from short to normal.

But maybe release lag time = short will help with lenses that are more susceptible to shutter shock, because this setting seems to pre-cock the shutter, so that means that there is less/gentler shutter movement before taking the picture.

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