Electronic or mechanical shutter? Locked

DIGITAL-PURPLE wrote:

ld_bl wrote:

I almost exclusively use EFCS. 14 bit raws and no rolling shutter artefacts. Sometimes I'll full mechanical shutter when I shoot wide open in bright light to avoid the weird bokeh issues you get in those situations with EFCS. I only use electronic shutter if I need to be silent which is extremely rare.

What body you shoot with? I use electronic on the r3 and don't see bokeh artifacts, but now I wonder if mechanical would do it better. Who knows, the bokeh looks good tho!

Mechanical is only a hair faster than the ES readout on the R3. I saw a chart on it, they are virtually identical on the R3. The same isn’t true for non-Stacked Canons though.

Now base ISO DR is different on ES on the R3, but not enough to warrant using mechanical, except, in mission critical DR usage. To say, virtually never.

Now on non-R3 bodies? EFCS is your friend under 1/200, and mechanical is your friend over 1/200. Period.

I hope Canon brings stacked CMOS to the masses to solve stuff like this. It hasn’t been a concern previously because other factors were bigger players, namely AFMA of DSLRs, DR of non-ADC Canons before the 80D, AF of Canons pre DIGIC8 mirrorless efforts Ala M50, lack of quality 4k before DIGICX and still IBIS availability is developing. Now we’re getting into fights over shutter type. Good fight to have compared to former headaches.