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GX8 - Disappointed with shuttershock

Started Apr 17, 2016 | Discussions thread
kenw
kenw Veteran Member • Posts: 7,095
Re: GX8 - Disappointed with shuttershock
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Arctra wrote:

I had never seen such bad shutter shock coming from that camera before and I couldn't even use the e-shutter because it doesn't work with speedlights.

Sorry to hear about your experience, shuttershock is definitely real and I've been occasionally annoyed with it over the years.  Very happy to have the E-M5II now which has more than one way to completely eliminate the problem.  I saw your quick examples just posted and that sure does look like shutter shock but I'd be curious as to how severe the problem at the wedding was and at what shutter speeds.

I did cherry pick the above quote from your rant for a bit of Monday morning quarterbacking.  If you were going to use a speedlight when shooting later in the evening then shutter shock would no longer be an issue.  You probably could have kept shooting the GX8 with mechanical and speedlight.

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