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Holding the E-PL6

Started Jan 12, 2016 | Discussions thread
Guy Parsons
Guy Parsons Forum Pro • Posts: 40,000
Anti-shock
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junk1 wrote:

Guy,

Is your chart wrong - doens't PM2 and PL6 have 0-sec anti-shock?

No, they are limited in that regard, E-PM2, E-PL5, E-PL6 all are very much the same internals and they can only do the regular old anti-shock of 1/8 second being the shortest delay, which seems to help a little but is not the real solution to the shock problem.

My suspicion is that it is caused by the choice of shutter mechanism, E-P5 and onward had shutters that could be controlled better in that the first curtain can be delayed, or in the case of E-M5ii the first curtain does not run at all for anti-shock settings.

Plus of course the cost of firmware changes, maybe they could be made to work with 0 second anti-shock but Olympus would not be expected to upgrade old cameras forever. They have bean counters to stop that sort of good engineering behaviour.

Regards..... Guy

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