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

gear1box wrote:

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.

It depends man, I don't use those shutter speeds, really on any of my cameras, SS or not.  I use S priority or M mode, and all my shooting is either really low light (stars, milky way, etc) or very bright light.  I dont shoot when it's cloudy, because it looks yucky when it's cloudy anyway and I dont shoot anything indoors.  I use shutter speeds between 2 sec - 1/30 sec and 1/1000 sec - 1/4000 sec.

What lenses do you see the issue with? I use the 1/8 sec shutter delay on my E-PL6.  I wasn't aware that the quick release option helps keep the SS down, does it?