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John Sheehy Forum Pro • Posts: 26,688
Re: Electronic or mechanical shutter?

DIGITAL-PURPLE wrote:

Electronic shutter on the R3, every day all day.

The mechanical shutter's roll isn't even 2x as fast as e-shutter on the R3; the R3's rolling e-shutter is faster than many film camera's mechanical shutters. For the R7, however, the mechanical shutter rolls about 10x as fast as e-shutter, so the difference is much greater there. Some older cameras have e-shutters that are almost 3x as slow as the R7's, and many fixed-lens bridge cameras implemented leaf shutters to avoid the artifacts.

When I adapted EOS telephoto lenses to my Pentax Q, which has a rolling e-shutter of about 80ms (29.6ms on the R7), I found it very difficult to get two shots in a row of the same subject that looked the same, as they were all stretched and compressed vertically, in different parts of the scene, which became very obvious when viewing them in succession as a slide show.

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