Actually, this has been a known issue for decades for this type of focal plane shutters - actually since they were introduced, and image sharpness could be compared with different kind of central shutters.
What's shutter shock? I have never had an issue with my a7r. The a7r sensor is fixed in one position and doesn't move like one in an Olympus. How can the shutter shock it? If you have blurred images it's due to camera movement. Use a tripod.
This is a much given complaint about Sony. But in fact Sony has a good trackrecord of updating FW. Look at the A700 A FW update gave us much better JPG quality, With the Nex 5 they gave us better battery life, more custom buttons, and a list of filter options. The Nex 7 got better bracketing (for manual HDR). So maybe you shout do some more investigation befor posting?
I've read this on a Olympus site:
According to the given site Shutter Shock only happens with long tele lenses and microscope photography, So as long as the OP do not use this kind of lenses at the given shutterspeeds, nothing will be visiable.
I think most of us understands that this is impossible, but you can avoid shutter shock by building a small delay between the closing and opening of the shutter. The shutter shock is still there, but not visiable on the picture as the picture is taken after the vibration is over...
Is this realy impossible? Sony could make the lable a kind of LCD display, so that it can be changed by FW
In fact the shuttershock is a well documented shortcomming of the A7r. It is not that every picture is affected (only long tele pictutes at a given shutter speed. So it is very well possible that many photographers will never encounter this problem as they do not use longe tele lenses (or microsope photography) or they do not use the given exposure time when using these lenses....
I don't know of a camera released in recent memory that you would have purchased then..... the D800, 5DIII, X-T1, E-M1, D600, NEX 7, A6000, A99 all have issues (from what I've read).
I haven't tried them myself but I believe there are also many well documented solutions or workarounds to minimize the issue.
Instead of using the now viral "shutter shock" term, I just think of it as vibration caused by the shutter. IN other words, same old-same old... shutter-induced vibration has been a factor in all focal plane shutters since the beginning.
).No, it is not a factor in shutters with an electronic first curtain, as is found in most of the Sony mirrorless cameras (and the new Nikon D810). The A7 has an EFC but the A7r does not.
Not if there is an EFC.
They don't need to for most of their mirrorless cameras.
Where there is an EFC, there is vibration only after the exposure, when it doesn't matter.
So if you have an A7 you should know that there is no sound (or vibration) at the start of the exposure.What's critical is that you put mechanisms in place to move the timing/resonance of the vibration so that it doesn't affect the exposure. Sony's rather loud, crude sounding shutters on the A7/r/s beg for some more refinement in this area, particularly with the A7r since it does not support EFCS or a fully electronic shutter mode. But it's not unworkable as it, it just takes more effort. The A7's EFCS was one of the reasons I bought the A7 model (never mind that it cost me $1000 less and 24 Mpixels is generally more than enough for the photography I do...
I was referring to the native, mechanical operation of the [A7/r/s series] shutter without EFCS. I thought that was pretty obvious from what I wrote. I can only imagine Sony did not include EFCS on the A7r because its higher-resolution sensor cannot support it, since it's obvious they understood the need for the A7 model. The PO's question was about the A7r, which does not support EFCS.
Indeed, particularly for long-ish exposures it takes a little getting used to.
If Sony can add EFCS (electronic front curtain shutter) with a firmware update, then yes. Otherwise, no.
I do see this when using telescopes with no diafragm and some long non-Sony lenses, but not with the G 70-400 mm or FE 70-200 mm lens. Luckily this is within the range where shutter shock does not affect sharpness noticeable. I just have to remember to set the EFC to ON after using my long on-Sony lenses ... ;-)
Thank you for this concise answer, and no sarcasm or deriding comments. I am not trolling, I have owned lots of Sony cameras, and I like them. Comments like maybe Sony will rename the camera to an a7r-II with a firmware update are dumb, don't answer the question, and redirect the whole nature of the question--I am not the one made a his-res compact full frame body with shutter issues.
No humor allowed here! :-D
I apologize. I thought you were being snarky.
the vibration issues are not in the ""BULB" - 1/125 range"... it only happens in a narrow shutter speed range around 1/100th or so.
