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Re: Electronic or mechanical shutter?

Ali wrote:

Rafavox wrote:

Do you guys mostly use electronic shutter instead of mechanical, I can see advantages like avoiding wear and tear of the shutter mechanism. What is the general rule for that? electronic 99% of the time and for fast moving objects like cars, birds, planes etc mechanical

A little more than a year ago I had this problem in a bunch of my shots taken at a concert, where bottom half of photos was blurry:

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/65759943

…and the best explanation for the issue was electronic shutter, which I rarely use but that did night. I really had no good reason to use ES other than to avoid shutter noise, but it was Metallica, so wouldn’t have mattered!

Well... nothing else matters

This was with the M6II but I think the issue could happen with other cameras.

Ever since then I’ve been hesitant to use ES except under more controlled conditions.

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