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Any IQ compromise in using electronic shutter?

Started Aug 3, 2020 | Questions thread
pifilos Regular Member • Posts: 343
Re: 4 reasons to not use ES

infoschuerfer wrote:

Very valuable contribution. As a new user of Fujifilm X-S10 and raw editor (On1 Photo RAW 2023), I have come across the following downside of ES: Out of camera, the raw files look the same, except that I see some bright hallo around bright objects (e.g. a porcelain plate).

Then, if you very strongly edit certain parts of the image, e.g. darken, reduce contrast, add lens blur effect to a masked out area, then you start to see strange shapes like stripes and brighter rectangles.

But these stripes and shapes are only visible in the preview while editing, and disappear when the edit is saved. However, these effects obviously are a big hindrance of your editing work.

Took the same picture with mechanical shutter for control: None of these effects.

After realising this and reading your post, I decided to use ES only if absolutely necessary.

However, II would like to understand this better. Any comments to my above observations?

Many thanks in advance.

Yeah i have noticed the same with my X-T2 / 20 and to be honest I thought it had to do with sensor readout speed or whatever sensor characteristic. I also thought it would be better with the sensors of later models but since you report the same thing it doesn't look like it.

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