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Electronic shutter: advantages and disadvantages

Started Sep 6, 2015 | Discussions thread
OP Henry Richardson Forum Pro • Posts: 21,959
Panasonic less DR, more noise

assaft wrote:

It depends on the metering system and how the camera works internally. Maybe it saturates the sensor to a lower extent and compensates for that by digital gain - so you'd end up with the same amount of clipped highlights but more shadow noise. I don't have the camera to check.

Ahh, yes. Thanks.

Me neither. There was a thread about the the E-M5ii having a bit more shadow noise when the ES is engaged. See here for an hypothesis about the matter. Anyone, I'm unaware of an empirical measure of the added shadow noise. You can do a dark frame test and ask someone who knows how to do the DR calculation to measure it.

Thanks, I will read through that thread. I took a look at the 2 posts you linked to and it looks like the E-M5II with the Sony sensor behaves much better when using the electronic shutter than the G7 with the Panasonic sensor. Also, see this:

http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/56447067

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