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Duckman21 Regular Member • Posts: 273
Re: Electronic or mechanical shutter?

I have been using electronic shutter on my R6 mostly for the past year but if possible I change to ECFS to maintain backgrounds from skewing. If your subject is against an "organic" (round parts of trees) or otherwise blurred background it is fine but not when I run into trees, buildings and poles.

If I really don't need to capture so many frames, I switch down to [H] mode instead of H+ because it allows for 14-bit files instead of 13-bit. H mode also allows you to take advantage of "high speed display" which means you see  some motion between shots. Nowhere as smooth like a stacked sensor (more like 15fps)  but far less choppy than H+ which shows a disorienting frameskip.

Wing warping is one thing with rolling shutter but another is jagged artifacts on the wingtips, similar to "bad deinterlacing/combing" for videos. I discussed it in this thread:
https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4659188

I find that for some situations this can be somewhat fixed in post but there's no easy way outside of using a brush to smear or blur out the wingtips around. Sometimes but not always Topaz Denoise will try to denoise the wingtips and thus it greatly reduces the artifacts, while DxO DeepPRIME seems to make it worse especially if there is lens sharpness turned on (in PhotoLab, in PureRAW it is applied to some extent even if "turned off"). If possible I just mask a layer for the DxO and Topaz treatments.

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