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

MarshallG wrote:

John Sheehy wrote:

apersson850 wrote:

DIGITAL-PURPLE wrote:

Electronic shutter on the R3, every day all day.

Same here, until I run into a problem with that. Hasn't happened yet.

Well, the range of circumstances in which the shutter choice would matter for rolling speed is relatively small with the R3. If I had an R3, I'd have it set to e-shutter almost all of the time. There could be situations, though, in which the difference could be visible; something moving vertically in the frame at exactly the same speed as the shutter roll could be stretched down the whole height of the frame at about 5ms, but could be distorted much less at 3ms - 4ms with EFCS or full mechanical.

Do they let you reduce frame rate when you use e shutter? Cause you might not always want 30fps or whatever it is.

It depend on the camera.  With my R5, I only get a choice between single shot or 20fps, and can't get any burst slower than that without using shorter shutter speeds that don't allow 20fps.  With my R7, there is 30fps e-shutter burst, but also slower burst options.  There is no technical reason that any camera couldn't burst at any speed slower than the max; it is just a marketing/design thing to have zero or few choices of exact burst speed.

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