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

Started Mar 10, 2016 | Discussions thread
alexisgreat Veteran Member • Posts: 6,459
Re: EPL6 & Shutter Shock - explain it to me like I'm a 10-year old

Guy Parsons wrote:

alexisgreat wrote

Sounds like mostly a problem with the longer lenses?

Not really, can happen at any focal length, but longer lenses may reveal the effect more readily. Some lenses are worse than others maybe due to movable elements inside them being shocked.

I haven't seen any SS then again the I use shutter speeds between 2 sec - 1/30 sec and then between 1/1000 sec - 1/4000 sec - nothing in between (shutter priority mode or full manual mode.)

If you strenuously avoid the problem shutter speeds then all is good.

The problem goes away completely with fully electronic shutter operation, but of course introduces new problems. Also 0 sec anti-shock pretty much totally fixes it as well.

Regards.... Guy

I was playing around with an idea in my head about how to permanently fix this problem and not need a shutter at all, is there some way to send an electrical signal to the sensor to turn it "on" for the exposure, and then to turn it "off" to complete the exposure- this would avoid needing a mechanical shutter at all and the issue of actuations and shutter wear.  I think astronomical ccd cameras use this method.

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