GX8 - Disappointed with shuttershock

kenw wrote:

Arctra wrote:

The shutter speeds I ran into it with was in the 1/30-1/200 range. 1/60 being the biggest troublemaker of the lot. SS was probably showing up in about 75% of the photos taken in that range during the wedding.

Thanks for the extra details, yep that is the range you'd expect shuttershock to be a problem. I remember on my E-M5 which had some shuttershock issues on certain lenses that ironically the more braced I held the camera the *worse* the shuttershock was. I'd get sharper photos if I held the camera one handed rather than braced (to be clear one handed IBIS was sharper than braced with IBIS on or off in that case). It is probably all camera and lens dependent but based on my experience there is a chance by being extra careful bracing your shots for the wedding you actually made the problem worse!

I actually did do some (admittedly quick and dirty) tests with and without a speedlight and while it did help I still noticed a general softness to the images in that range.

You know, now that I think about it more my assumption that the speedlight would remove the effects of shuttershock is an oversimplification. Yes, with an old manual flash where you dump all the light in like 1/10000 second it would. Many modern TTL speedlight systems though have an extended flash period or multiple strobes that could cover the whole 1/100 second during which the shock happens.

I have never come across a flash that slow. For example,  modest Mecablitz flash has a duration of 1/500 sec to 1/30,000 sec (depending on the exposure, distance ofsubject from flash, etc.).