Still Using the GX7

thinkinginimages wrote:

I've never run into "shutter shock" with my GX7 or any of my lenses.

Just might be because you don't have one of those known shutter shock lenses, or you don't mind the effect only.

Do you have the 14~140, 14~42PZ or the 45~200?

When I looked at the shutter shock affected images in my early days, if comparing to the printed photos from my film slrs era, they are actually not much different. Some were even sharper instead. Also very often less precise focusing, might be the noise, or not the sharpest lens used or not at their sweet spot etc could produce the sort of soft feeling. Only until I got e-shutter since GX7 to compare and realize most of the pervious suspecions for the lack of critical sharpness was because of shutter shock.

If you do not expect a very sharp image (even the kit class lenses can be very sharp), shutter shock might not bother you. I concern with shutter shock because I wish to get the best from my gear.

alcelc wrote:

thinkinginimages wrote:

I've never run into "shutter shock" with my GX7 or any of my lenses.

Just might be because you don't have one of those known shutter shock lenses, or you don't mind the effect only.

Do you have the 14~140, 14~42PZ or the 45~200?

When I looked at the shutter shock affected images in my early days, if comparing to the printed photos from my film slrs era, they are actually not much different. Some were even sharper instead. Also very often less precise focusing, might be the noise, or not the sharpest lens used or not at their sweet spot etc could produce the sort of soft feeling. Only until I got e-shutter since GX7 to compare and realize most of the pervious suspecions for the lack of critical sharpness was because of shutter shock.

If you do not expect a very sharp image (even the kit class lenses can be very sharp), shutter shock might not bother you. I concern with shutter shock because I wish to get the best from my gear.

Interesting point. There are things like artifacts, lens imperfections and I guess shutter shock that I probably don’t notice because I am so used to seeing them for so long. After all, the impact is usually subtle.

I went to see a Van Gogh exhibit today. One of the most interesting parts was a theory that Van Gogh used such vibrant colors because he had difficulty seeing subtle color shifts (they didn’t use the term color blindness,  so I won’t either).   So maybe his imperfect eyes were partly responsible for his incredible, dramatic artistic vision.

Maybe there are times when slight technical weaknesses in our equipment shouldn’t stop us from pursuing our passion.