Banding on Z9

JamesinIT wrote:

I had something similar happen at an indoor event that I shot with the silent shutter the first hour or two. Then I saw it when I got the images moved over to my phone. Folks online said to change turn off silent shutter, and that issue went away completely. Unfortunately it was really bad in my photos, and I ended up dumping most of them because there was not a good way of fixing them (and as a hobbyist, wouldn't have been worth my time).

This has been my experience also, despite what others have said in this thread.

I've been shooting shows with a Z6 (mark 1) from the moment I could get my hands on one. I never shot in silent mode, so have always shot with mechanical shutter and never had banding on my photos.

I shoot manually and usually shoot at max. aperture (2.8) with a minimal shutter speed of 1/250 (or 1/125 if the artist is stationary and I need the extra stop). I use the Auto ISO feature to let the camera handle the proper exposure.

As said before, I never had this problem with my Z6 (which is also a lower resolution than the Z9, which also has another type - back lit - image sensor) shooting with mechanical shutter.