Banding on Z9

olyflyer wrote:

AlireaPhotography wrote:

olyflyer wrote:

vtpeters wrote:

Or is this just one of the disadvantages of a shutterless camera?

If you mean that cameras with mechanical shutters would NEVER have this then you are wrong. You can get this sort of effect with any camera, even one with mechanical shutter. It is caused by the light and depending on the shutter speed, captured by the camera.

No, it would happen with a camera with mechanical shutter, but the effect is so blurred that hardly you can notice it even when looking carefully. The mechanical shutter, specially in lower speeds makes it blurred without hard edges. Mechanical shutter is not as accurate as electronic shutter which helps in this case to make it less noticeable.

What's "hardly noticeable" is individual, and also depends on the situation. I have pictures taken with DSLRs where it is clearly noticeable and very disturbing. In my opinion, in the OP's image it is hardly noticeable and not at all disturbing. I mean, I can clearly see it in the background (because I am looking for it), but not on his face or guitar, so it is not disturbing. If it was visible on the subject, it would be disturbing even if it was taken with the mechanical shutter of DSLR.

I did a side by side comparison some time ago here and returned my Z9 because of that.

Because of that single reason...? Really...?

I don't think so. the ones I got from electronic shutter even at shutter speed 1/200 was clearly noticeable. The OPs shots are less noticeable and can be fixed but it can be much worse than that.
I can go to the topic of why this feature was very important for me and I returned Z9 for it, but it is not my thread and I don't want to change the topic. let's focus on OPs issue now.