Recent launches and future of the X-Pro series

ViMa wrote:

Truman Prevatt wrote:

ViMa wrote:

Jeff Biscuits wrote:

ViMa wrote:

Losing e-shutter with the 40mp sensor is a big hit for street photographers, the main focus of the X-Pro series.

I thought the X-T5 still had ES?

Yes but apparently it suffers from horrible rolling shutter due to the 40mp.

Unless you are panning with the camera or there is significant motion - the rolling shutter won't be an issue.

I shoot at 1/1000s while walking towards a person who's usually walking towards me. Sometimes it's a split second and more often than not i mjss the framing I'm going for despite being prefocussed and not losing time autofocussing.

Do you think that would have rolling shutter? If not, that's most amazing for me.

Of course there are certain types of scenes where one will notice rolling shutter. Hell there are certain types of scenes where one can notice rolling shutter with a mechanical shutter. At shutter speeds above the flash sync speed, the mechanical is a rolling slit over the sensor as part of the sensor is only exposed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_shutter

The flash sync on the XH2 (and I presume the XT5) is about 1/250. so at 1/1000 only a slit of the sensor is exposed at a time as the slit rolls down the sensor.

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4558558

You might also Google "baseball bats and rolling shutter."

Most reports I've read put the XTrans 5HR rolling shutter performance about the same as the XTrans IV sensors (which was generally regarded as quite good).  I can get my X-Pro3 and X-H2 to show some "jelly cam" effect if I try, but I haven't yet noticed much difference between them in this regard.