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Electronic shutter: advantages and disadvantages

Started Sep 6, 2015 | Discussions thread
Martin Ocando
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Regarding wear and tear
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That is one of the things that have troubled me since I came to m43. Our camera shutters wear two times faster than DSLRs. So, if a shutter is rated to say 50,000 actuations, it might not even reach half of it, since it must travel twice per frame.

One feature I have always feared it would wear the shutter heavily is timelapse. The E-M10 II comes to cure all this.

Panasonic do have a head start on this. I had E-Shutter with my G5, couple of years ago. Really loved that feature, and I'm missing it on my E-M10.

What really bugs me, is that such a feature can't be too difficult to implement with a firmware upgrade. I mean, my E-M10 already uses E-Shutter for Live Composite.

Still hoping

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