In praise of the RF 35 and high ISO on the R

thunder storm wrote:

Alastair Norcross wrote:

thunder storm wrote:

Acceptable results at higher ISO is the full frame advantage. With my M50 I had to work really hard sometimes to get a good exposure. With the R I'm getting lazy. There's 1/8000th and a drop in ND-filter on one side of the spectrum, and ISO 1250 on the other. That's a huge margin in AV-mode, and on top of that there's a minimum shutter speed to save your butt if you forget watching the shutter speed.

Full frame is for amateurs, it's aps-c requiring a skilled photographer.

LOL. But now you have the M6II, you have a couple of those things on APS-C too. The M6II auto ISO has the same minimum shutter speed implementation as the R (and the 7DII). And you can actually use a faster shutter speed on the M6II with e-shutter than on the R. I have used 1/12800 a couple of times to allow me to shoot at F1.4 in bright light.

Oh yeah, that's great. I totally forgot about that. That's great with the 32mm, but with my f/1.8 glass it's very usable too.

Are there any downsides for e-shutter?

You can only use it in single shot drive mode, or RAW burst mode, which is cropped to 18MP and needs DPP to extract the images, I think (I still haven't tried it, but keep meaning to). I don't think you can use flash with it. It can result in banding in some artificial lighting, so you need to test that first. I have used it indoors quite a lot, but there are some rooms where the lighting causes banding. Still, I find it very useful, and use it a lot. It's great for candid shooting using the screen tilted up. I also find I can shoot quite fast with it, even though it's only one shot at a time. At least 2fps with successive shutter presses. It probably has some rolling shutter too, but I've never used it in conditions where this would show up.

I was surprised to discover that the R tops out at 1/8000 in e-shutter.

The 32Mp aps-c sensor is newer tech.

That's true. I hadn't thought of that as the reason.