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GX8 - Disappointed with shuttershock

Started Apr 17, 2016 | Discussions thread
bahamot
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Re: GX8 - Disappointed with shuttershock

Arctra wrote:

kenw wrote:

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.

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.

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 might want to send it back for repair or swap.

I shot a lot with 1/60-1/320 indoor (including using flash)  with mine but never encountered with shutter shock. (But I always use Panasonic lenses)

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