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Pany G7 Shutter Shock, how do you know?

Started Oct 1, 2018 | Questions thread
rambling robin
rambling robin Senior Member • Posts: 1,196
Re: Pany G7 Shutter Shock, how do you know?

johnpatrickbishop wrote:

So this may be a ridiculous question, but how do you know if you're experiencing shutter shock with your G7? I have read about this issue, but also don't trust that I'm not just experiencing camera hypochondria.

Generally I'm very happy with the images I'm getting, but every once in a while it seems like the images aren't very sharp even though I'm shooting at what I think is high enough shutter speeds (1/160 to 1/200) to freeze things.

And shutter shock would go away entirely with an electronic shutter, no?

Am fully open to the possibility that this is purely operator error and that I'm subconsciously building a case for an upgrade that I totally do not need.

In the menus you can switch between eshutter, mechanical or auto. (Firmware 2.2)

Auto will shoot mechanical unless your settings stray into known shutter shock parameters when it will swap to eshutter.

This seems to me to be an elegant solution on a body that does not have a first curtain.

I had no end of trouble with shock blur on my G2s - at a time when s/s was ignored by Panasonic and pooh-poohed by many as user error. Then Oly introduced s/s delay and then Pana introduced eshutter - all to fix a non-existant problem.

Anyhoo - I have found the auto setting works very well.

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