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Edymagno Veteran Member • Posts: 3,694
Re: Electronic or mechanical shutter?

Alastair Norcross 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

I use e-shutter whenever I can. That's the vast majority of the time with my R and M6II. I would use it more on my R7, if there were an 8fps option. For a lot of sports, I find 15fps to be overkill (not for all sports), so I use EFCS for that reason. Most of my shooting is unaffected by rolling shutter, so I don't often have to use mechanical (EFCS or full mechanical) to avoid that. I love e-shutter for event shooting indoors, and only use mechanical when the lighting causes banding with e-shutter, which doesn't happen often (luckily).

Hello Alastair:

How do you determine in situ you're getting banding or not?

TiA

Edu

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