panasonic g/gx/gh-series electronic shutter slowest possible shutter speed

Sranang Boi wrote:

What wear are you on about? are you sure you need a camera and not a phone instead?

Shutter wear in particular. Shutters on DSLR or mirrorless cameras are most commonly rated somewhere between 50k and 100k releases which seems a lot but when doing timelapses you can easily get into those numbers. Like 2000 to 3000 pictures a day or 10000 or even more over the course of a week/month etc.

I know (or better I've read) that sometimes shutters are good for a lot more releases than what they are rated for but I'd rather save myself the cost of a shutter replacement if I can.. (had to do it once on my 5d and it did cost around 400$).

As far as using a phone.. could you suggest one that shoots around 20mp RAW and comes with an EF mount?

hampshirejohn wrote:

GH4 manual definitely says e-shutter is limited to 1 second.

epozar wrote:

= (The E-M1 II is 200000 I believe, but the min eshutter is 1/8 second, not even close enough IMO).

Wrong, no limit.

Wait.. are you saying there is "no limit" regarding the minimum eshutter speed? Like you could shoot at 20" shutter speed with a fully electronic shutter (not just electronic front cutain)?

Depends on the camera;  The 3 LUMIX I have all have 60 second max shutter.  And can be controlled in Image App for more options.

epozar wrote:

epozar wrote:

Soyuz7 wrote:

epozar wrote:

= (The E-M1 II is 200000 I believe, but the min eshutter is 1/8 second, not even close enough IMO).

Wrong, no limit.

Wait.. are you saying there is "no limit" regarding the minimum eshutter speed? Like you could shoot at 20" shutter speed with a fully electronic shutter (not just electronic front cutain)?

Yes, the whole range: 60sec to 1/32000

It is MkI model that is limited to 1/8 sec.

see here too:

http://asia.olympus-imaging.com/product/dslr/em1mk2/feature5.html

That's an amazing little camera.. really makes me want to upgrade. To be honest I really only wanted to spend about half as much on a new camera (the Olympus is around 1500EUR where I live) but this list of features sort of makes one think.

Then again.. since I'm all kitted out for canon it would be a bittersweet upgrade more or less. Sure, I could get a metabones to adapt all my canon glass but that would be another 600-700 bucks and autofocus would probably be not stellar at all (looks like the OM-D has focus peaking though).

Badwater wrote:

Depends on the camera; The 3 LUMIX I have all have 60 second max shutter. And can be controlled in Image App for more options.

Which LUMIX cameras do you have? Are you sure the 60 sec max shutter speed is for the fully electronic mode (i.e. silent mode)?

shipdriver wrote:

Soyuz7 wrote:

I am estimating around 50 hours of driving and if I go for a pic every 2 seconds that's 90000 images right there. I might opt for a 5 second interval but honestly I like the motion better with 2 seconds.

Thanks for the help guys!

Wow, 90,000 shots makes a 50 minute video at 30fps!

I was going for 24p so it would be around an hour of raw footage but Id' probably make some sort of highlight reel out of it. Leaving out all the boring parts and adding some real-time video and some stills might make for a nice montage.

But it's a lot of data to deal with, too. Probably somewhere between 2 and 3 Terabytes just for the timelapse photos. That's part of the reason I might go with a 5-second interval instead of two. That and the fact that processing 90,000 pictures sounds like a really bad grind. A 5-second interval would leave me with around 36,000 images... sounds much more reasonable but I do like the motion you get from a 2-sec interval better.

Soyuz7 wrote:

from Vermont to California in about a month and was thinking of making a huge drivelapse of the whole trip so 1 second would actually be enough for that and other daytime time lapses which is fantastic.

Can you clarify - are you asking about minimum shutter speed, or are you asking about maximum time delay in interval shooting

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Big Ga wrote:

Soyuz7 wrote:

from Vermont to California in about a month and was thinking of making a huge drivelapse of the whole trip so 1 second would actually be enough for that and other daytime time lapses which is fantastic.

Can you clarify - are you asking about minimum shutter speed, or are you asking about maximum time delay in interval shooting

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Minimum shutter speed (when using fully electronic shutter)... but it has pretty much been answered already. It looks like the slowest possible electronic shutter speed with most modern Panasonic cameras is 1 second, which is an acceptable value for daytime time lapses.

There are other options though like the OM-D E-M1 Mark II where it looks like shutter speed can be anything from 60 seconds to 1/32000th of a second even when using the electronic shutter.