Re: Thoughts on Electronic vs Mechanical shutter?

2016-12-28 Thread Bill
On 12/28/2016 11:28 AM, John Francis wrote: I think you have that backwards. With an electronic shutter, the image is taken at electronic speeds; the entire sensor is cleared, then the image is captured. There's no reason for the electronics to expose different pixels at different times.

Re: Thoughts on Electronic vs Mechanical shutter?

2016-12-28 Thread John Francis
I think you have that backwards. With an electronic shutter, the image is taken at electronic speeds; the entire sensor is cleared, then the image is captured. There's no reason for the electronics to expose different pixels at different times. While there will certainly be some delay across

Re: Thoughts on Electronic vs Mechanical shutter?

2016-12-28 Thread Zos Xavius
You don't see the rolling effect because it is only a half electronic shutter. When the shutter closes or stops as an electronic aperture does is when you get the motion artifacts. That's when the sensor starts reading out. With a mechanical shutter it just closes and starts reading off the

Thoughts on Electronic vs Mechanical shutter?

2016-12-28 Thread Larry Colen
I was playing with some night landscape work tonight, using live view, and when I took a photo, I didn't hear the shutter. I realized that was because I had set my camera to use electronic shutter in live view because that means it doesn't need to go flop flop with the shutter and you don't