Electronic shutter, versus mechanical shutter

Less dynamic range, showing more shadow noise at high ISO and other effects. It's less of an issue if you're a JPEG user but raw files lose two bits of data capture using electronic vs. mechanical shutter.
that is not true
It depends on the camera.

Some higher-end camera's electronic shutters capture images at 12-bits, while some lower-end cameras only capture 10-bits.

This spec is very carefully hidden, so if it's an issue, it's important to find out before you buy a camera.

Personally, I would NEVER buy a camera that produced 10-bit image files.

Rhetorical question of the day:

Speaking of image file bit rates, why don't M4/3 sensors produce 14-bit files?
 
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I have the Olympus EM – 1miii. Forgetting for a moment about.Objects bending, when moving at high speed in the mechanical shutter mode, disregarding that entirely, is there any reason not to continuously use the electronic shutter and save wear and tear on the camera. I see virtually no differences in the photos taken in each mode. Any opinions?
I have found using the electronic shutter will reduce frame rate in continuous and reduce the accuracy of the AF, If you do sports use mechanical.
Agree about using mechanical for sports but how can electronic reduce frame rate in continuous? There's no curtain to move back & forth and continuous max frame rate roughly doubles.
 
Some people say background blur can be affected by e-shutter, but I use e-shutter almost 100% and never noticed anything unusual about that over tens of thousands of pictures.
Bokeh can affected when using electronic front curtain shutter with fast shutter speeds - 1/1000s and faster. Here is an article about that: https://petapixel.com/2018/12/07/ps...in-shutter-may-be-quietly-hurting-your-bokeh/.

But this is not an issue with fully electronic shutter.
On the OM-1, the menu says that when selecting/ activating anti shock shutter (On), shutter speeds under 1/320 will be taken with the "electronic" shutter... this is clearly the "anti-shock" shutter or Electronic First Curtain Shutter, not the silent shutter, at speeds slower than 1/ 320 sec. In other words, if anti shock is activated, then speeds slower than 1/ 320 use EFCS, and speeds 1/320 and faster use full mechanical shutter. You can hear this change clearly. So the OM-1 will not allow the risk of "clipped" bokeh because it will be in full mechanical shutter 1/320 and faster, regardless of EFCS being selected.

Silent shutter is another thing altogether. No mechanical shutter blades in action at all. I think it's over ISO 6400 that noise can increase if using silent shutter.
Why would the noise increase above ISO 6400 for the electronic shutter?

The E-M1s do change the readout mode and speed above ISO 8000 and the OM1 above ISO 16000 (cut to 1/30 and 1/60), while I assume this is to prevent an increase in noise, that is just an assumption on my part. We know they do this for the Electronic Shutter because of the change required for the maximum flash sync speed, but don't know what happens with the mechanical shutter.
 
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My quick test (EM1-3) MS has green cast, ES has magenta cast
Which was the illumination?

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Antonio
 
natural light in my home, underexposed 5 stops
 
...is there any reason not to continuously use the electronic shutter and save wear and tear on the camera...
Mechanical shutters don't like to be idle for long periods of time... or so I've read... in an old camera book.
Oh dear. Have owned OM1 for 7 months and haven't tried the mechanical shutter yet 🤔
 

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