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EPL6 & Shutter Shock - explain it to me like I'm a 10-year old

Started Mar 10, 2016 | Discussions thread
gear1box Senior Member • Posts: 1,536
Re: EPL6 & Shutter Shock - explain it to me like I'm a 10-year old
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Jsara --

Guy offers an excellent summary of measures available to counter SS and their consequences.  And forgive me for presuming that you are the slightest bit interested in the reaction of a whizzened old guy to all this.

But . . . Avoid shooting from 1/30 to 1/320?  EXCUSE ME!  Those are the three most valuable and common stops of shutter speed that most of us reflexively use.  So that is a really big deal.  Basically the only way to comply is to drive the ISO from, say, 400 to 3200 . . . which is obviously not so nice to image quality on a small m4/3 sensor.

It is worse with some lenses than others and even holding technique seems to matter.  If you have the problem --  and you will not want to hear this -- but the final answer is to choose a newer m4/3 body (like, say, the PL7 if you like that form factor) that has a feature like "zero shutter", EFCS, etc, which, i am happy to say, effectively eliminates the problem.

I had the problem with a couple of Panny bodies.  It was very very frustrating to try and reliably get a sharp shot and in early m4/3 days we didn't understand that much about it.  I shoot a PL7 now, and an EM5 (which only has the 1/8 shutter function) that do not seem to exhibit it.

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