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How is it with Anti-Shock in the latest camera models?

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DrWu
DrWu Contributing Member • Posts: 658
How is it with Anti-Shock in the latest camera models?

Both my Pen-F and E-M1 MkII were about 6 years old and with them I had Anti-Shock (0 sec) mode always activated as I used to do with Pen E-P5 and E-M5 MkI before that, both of which suffered from shutter shock in certain situtions.

Now when I started configuring the buttons and settings of my new OM-1 for my kind of shooting I noticed that as a default Anti-Shock is set to off. Does this mean that shutter shock is not a "threat" with the latest cameras anymore? How is it with E-M1X and E-M1 MkIII? Do you keep Anti-Shock On or Off?

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Peter Heckert2
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Re: How is it with Anti-Shock in the latest camera models?
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On my E-M5III Anti-Shock is deselected by default.
Because the shutter is so soft, I think it makes no difference at least with heavy  lenses and pro lenses.

I made tests with mechanical vs. electronic shutter @300mm and beyond and did not see a difference.

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Pierre77 Forum Member • Posts: 73
Re: How is it with Anti-Shock in the latest camera models?

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Skeeterbytes Forum Pro • Posts: 23,186
Re: How is it with Anti-Shock in the latest camera models?

An oddity of the OM1, unlike prior E-M models is either/or regular (two-curtain) or antishock (second-curtain) is available in the drive menu, but I cannot find a way to display all at once. Why? Who can guess.

HTH

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Jeff Wahaus Contributing Member • Posts: 943
Re: How is it with Anti-Shock in the latest camera models?

Skeeterbytes wrote:

An oddity of the OM1, unlike prior E-M models is either/or regular (two-curtain) or antishock (second-curtain) is available in the drive menu, but I cannot find a way to display all at once. Why? Who can guess.

HTH

Rick

If it's like an E-M1iii then there is a separate setup menu where you can select which drive modes appear if I'm remembering correctly.

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Skeeterbytes Forum Pro • Posts: 23,186
Re: How is it with Anti-Shock in the latest camera models?

Jeff Wahaus wrote:

Skeeterbytes wrote:

An oddity of the OM1, unlike prior E-M models is either/or regular (two-curtain) or antishock (second-curtain) is available in the drive menu, but I cannot find a way to display all at once. Why? Who can guess.

HTH

Rick

If it's like an E-M1iii then there is a separate setup menu where you can select which drive modes appear if I'm remembering correctly.

Also going from the always-suspect memory, as you say the older models let you toggle each of the various shutter modes on and off; those chosen populate the camera's drive menu. The OM1 is similar but seems to only let you toggle between standard and antishock and not choose both.

This is a recent discovery for me and if there's a workaround to have both available, single and continuous versions, at the same time I'd like to do that.

Because antishock rolls over to standard dual-curtain above a certain speed, it's not that big of a deal.

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motormatic Contributing Member • Posts: 521
Re: How is it with Anti-Shock in the latest camera models?

The E-M5iii manual calls the shutter vibration "minimal" but still offers anti-shock.

The manual also mentions that wireless RC flash is not possible when using anti-shock.  The E-M10 manual does not mention this and iI have used RC flash with anti-shock enabled on that camera.

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Impulses Forum Pro • Posts: 10,039
Re: How is it with Anti-Shock in the latest camera models?

IIRC EFCS was shoehorned into the pre-existing Anti Shock menu (under the confusingly labeled 0s option) on some older bodies that gained it via firmware update and/or were still using the old shutter mechanism that still triggered the first curtain, followed by a tiny ms delay, followed by the electronic curtain.

On the E-M5 II and newer bodies it should be the diamond labeled options (still confusing) under the drive modes, with the heart (seriously who comes up with this iconography) being full e-shutter instead. No need to dig up the AS menu option... Same as the PEN-F & E-M1 II?

Maybe they deprecated that confusing 0s option since it never made much sense to begin with? The anti shock menu predates EFCS and I guess at the time the way it's named made sense as far as where to cram EFCS...

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