Electronic or mechanical shutter? Locked

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!

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.

Be careful at Metallica concerts that the Sandman doesn't "enter" the camera's sensor chamber.

What you have in the bottom of the first image with the vertical ghosting in that post is not so much the result of a slow rolling shutter per se, as it is the slow rolling shutter allowing for different camera shake blurs at different parts of the image, vertically.  IOW, the camera was relatively stable during part of the roll, but jerked vertically during the roll through the bottom of the image.  Usually what you see with narrow angles of view and slow rolling shutters is a sharp, but distorted image, sometimes not noticeable until you watch a slide show and the distortions are obviously different in successive frames.

A faster rolling shutter would have shown the same vertical ghosting if the roll occurred at the same time that the slower shutter rolled through the bottom of the frame, but the ghosting would have been through the entire image.

Beware of correct answers to wrong questions.
John
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