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

Dem Bell wrote:

wddxnyr wrote:

Thanks for your reply. I am still a bit confused.

Let's say I am shooting a still subject handholding my camera.

If I shoot at 1/400 sec with e-shutter, will I get the same amount of hand shake as if

That depends on how you quantify "the amount of hand shake".

I shoot m-shutter at 1/400 sec or

I shoot m-shutter at 1/25 sec because of the readout speed?

If you zoom at the two images to the pixel level to compare how sharp they are, the two images will look about the same.

If you overlay the two images, you might find that shape of the subject is slightly different. The lines in the e-shutter image will be as sharp as in the m-shutter image but they will be slightly bent. My point was that the amount of this bending for still subjects and good camera holding technique will be so small even at 200 mm when image stabilisation is on that no one will ever notice anything.

I agree with this. I shoot with the EF-S 55-250 all time time, very frequently with a 1.5x teleconverter as well bringing it to >350mm.

For moving subjects like fast trains or birds in flight I use mechanical shutter with speeds 1/640 or higher (1/1250 for Amtrak trains and birds), usually with low or high speed drive mode.

For almost everything else I use electronic shutter, including birds not in flight and slow freight trains.

My experience is as above --- once in a great while I can see vertical lines slanted just a bit --- barely noticeable unless I happened to be moving or the subject moved.

Once in a while I forget to shut off e-shutter for fast trains and get interesting rolling shutter effects where the train is quite slanted or distorted!

To avoid this I use the custom C1 and C2 settings --- C1 for still subjects, slower shutter speed, electronic shutter, no drive mode. C2 for moving subjects --- fast shutter speed, mechanical shutter, drive mode. The cool thing is you can switch to the other setting almost instantly on the dial! So when shooting still birds on C1 --- if I think the bird will take off, or if it takes off --- it's second nature for me to switch to C2 and fire away!