Electronic Shutter vs. "normal" Shutter

[scott kirkpatrick]

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ON

 

But this thread is an early version of a more recent thread.  I'll see if I can locate that one.

 

scott

[Jared]

Mine is on, but I honestly haven't taken an exposure at greater than 1/8,000s shutter speed yet except to "try it out", so my guidance isn't very helpful.

[Lynx]

Mine is on. I have not noticed any degradation, but of course most if not all shots are outdoor and have a lot of sky in them. And I'm no pixel afficiniado .

 

//Johan

[steppenw0lf]

I do not often use f 1.4 and certainly not if there is a very bright sky in the image.

So I actually have not taken a single photo with 1/16000.    (And it was winter time, so rather dark. Maybe I get the opportunity in summer.)

So you can simply let it be switched ON. It will not influence the slower speeds. (How would it ?)

[scott kirkpatrick]

The bands of light and dark about ten posts back suggest that the fluorescent light in the room was cycling at about four times the speed with which the image was captured and extracted.  I thought fluorescents oscillated at 50 or 60 Hz, which would suggest that the chip was read out over 1/15 sec, which is rather slow.  We know the SL can shoot at 11 FPS, and 1/15 sec is faster than that, so 1/15 sec may indeed be the bandwidth limitation for getting the image off the chip.

 

But I went out yesterday in full sun, shooting at f/1.4 and 1/16000 sec (at ISO 400), and waved the camera across a scene with a nice straight light pole, holding it both horizontally and vertically.  The pole stayed straight in all half dozen tries.

 

scott