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MarshallG
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Re: Electronic shutter article

Distinctly Average wrote:

MarshallG wrote:

Ferenc MOGOR wrote:

Technically you are right about "less bit", but do we really see a significant difference?

Yes, of course you can see a difference if you push shadows and cut highlights in your landscape shots. Doesn’t everyone?

Long story short: All the photo manipulation tools should het better results when they have more bits to work with. If you shoot jpeg it doesn’t matter and if you don’t intend to push shadows it probably doesn’t matter but the difference always lies in the shadows, eh?

Sincerely, I’m not trying to win an argument. When you shoot 30 second landscapes, let’s face it, you’re shooting for perfection and 14 is better than 12. Yes, I think it can matter.

Surely that depends on the type of landscape you shoot, the methods you employ both at the time and in post etc. I agree, there is probably no reason on many cameras to shoot ES for this kind of work. Having said that, we will probably not have anything but electronic shutters in the not too distant future and instead have something different to worry about.

Yes, there are some sensors with very fast electronic shutter, which also don’t impose a bit depth reduction. But the EOS R family doesn’t have that, except (I think) in the R3.

Maybe all ML models in three or five years will be all-electronic shutter.

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