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'Lost' electronic first curtain exposure feature on 600D

Started Jan 31, 2015 | Questions thread
dleemans Regular Member • Posts: 130
Re: 'Lost' electronic first curtain exposure feature on 600D

Dave Walker 56 wrote:

Hi

At the risk of asking a dumb question I’m a bit baffled by my Canon 600D. In Live View mode by default doesn’t it always have Electronic First Curtain on with no option to disable. So in LV, the mirror stays up all the time and when fire shutter it exposes with electronic first curtain, finishes with mechanical curtain, and mirror stays up after, so near vibration free.

When using to date, when shutter fired in Live View mode it acted like this and there was just a quiet noise.

But now in Live View when shutter fired, the mirror comes down, mechanical shutter exposes, then mirror goes up back to Live View with the kerclunk expected of a none EFC camera.

Check your AF mode in Liveview. Looks like you enabled the use of PDAF (the "classic" AF points) instead of CDAF.

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