Recent M6 Mark II shutter shock study / M50 upgrade path rant

ex human wrote:

Everyone has their tolerances, but, from an IQ standpoint, at least in my view, it makes these zooms (e.g., 15-45, 18-150), largely unusable on this body.

Doing some spot checking on my previous lifetime with the M6 II, my time with zooms was largely above 1/400, where the phenomenon has no impact.

At times when light was lower, I was using a prime, again, no impact.

The trouble becomes if you use a zoom in less light and push the IS for stills use, which was infrequent for my shooting patterns, but I can see folks wanting to push ISOs lower and shutters lower and lean on IS.

I’ll be watching for this shortly as I didn’t detect it last time, but, I have no reason to doubt it’s very much there (shutter shock). The question becomes one of how often it shows up, was it a problem problem, and does electronic shutter make sense for those cases, or not?

I may agree with Nnowak here; it may be by design; this is a high speed (14fps) high readout (32MP sensor), there may be more to it than just software.

Now is it a big deal? In my prior experience, no. However this time around I’ll be hitting that 15-45 harder, which will make it show up. Question becomes, is it a problem-problem? Or is it a punching bag / talking point on a forum with minimal real world impact?

There is always the M50 mark II, though. I’d much rather have my better sensor and 4K, though.