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

Alastair Norcross wrote:

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,

That's fine. I almost never shoot burst mode. Did that with my 70D and I'm done with it. When le moment décisif needs to be chosen in post you need to many pictures. 

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.

I'm not really interested in using flash and 1/12800th of a second at the same time. I will also use the R when I need a flash. But thanks for mentioning it anyway.

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'm thinking about a C mode for low light and a C mode for lots of light. Sounds to me like silent mode is good enough in lots of light situations.

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.