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Electronic shutter or mechanical shutter on M6 II w/ 55-200

Started Nov 21, 2021 | Discussions thread
23speaker23 Contributing Member • Posts: 557
Re: Electronic shutter or mechanical shutter on M6 II w/ 55-200
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wddxnyr wrote:

Hi all

My question in one sentence: with a relatively slow sensor (the one on the M6 II, 1/25s readout time), can one shoot at 200mm handheld with e-shutter?

If the sensor readout time is 1/25s, will the sensor receives the same amount of hand shake/body shake as if the shutter speed is 1/25s even if the e-shutter speed is higher? If this is true, I think it would be unpractical to shoot at 200mm handheld. I am asking because I noticed that there is some serious shutter shock with the 55-200 in m-shutter mode. Using e-shutter with tripod gives better sharpness but I hate tripod (which defeats the purpose of the eos m system).

Thanks

If you shoot at 1/400 sec with e-shutter, you will get the same amount of camera shake as if you shot mechanical shutter at 1/400 sec.

The e-shutter reads the sensor line by line (so to speak) if it is not a global shutter. That means that every indivudal pixel and line will be exposed for the time set in you shutter speed. However it will take some time for the camera to read all the 'lines' off of the sensor. And this means if there is an object moving fast across the frame you may see a distortion of that object (since the object will move by the time the camera reads through the sensor). However, there will be no hand / camera shake if you shoot at approriate speeds. Hope this helps.

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