Electronic vs. Mechanical shutter

[robisonfoto]

Is there an image quality loss in using the electronic shutter over the mechanical shutter on the R5?

 

[Lookyloo69]

Is there an image quality loss in using the electronic shutter over the mechanical shutter on the R5?

I would like to thank you for bringing this up. I ended up going to get " learned up " by studying . I've know about electronic shutters since the introduction of the EOS630 and the EOS 1 rs when it came out... I loved my 630 but never gave this topic a second thought. I shoot a lot of extremely low light venue band shots ... so besides learning something new i will be also experimenting with the methods available to me thru my R5. I'm not sure i will be able to give you an update however you opened up a world i'd forgotten to look into and I thank you

 

[TMac99]

I noticed the following info in the R6 manual concerning the use of both electronic and 1st Curtain electronic. I suspect it is the same for the R5, but don't know for sure. You can see there is potential for image issue under some circumstances with both FCES and ES.

 

[Whizzo5]

I noticed the following info in the R6 manual concerning the use of both electronic and 1st Curtain electronic. I suspect it is the same for the R5, but don't know for sure. You can see there is potential for image issue under some circumstances with both FCES and ES.

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Useful reminder, thanks.

 

[MaraLee]

Again, I'm late to the discussion, but I was doing some low-light, slow-shutter shooting this weekend, and using electronic shutter for the first time in these conditions because the model had a snake we didn't want to stress. In PP, I noticed a lot more noise than usual in some of the images, and I couldn't figure out why because my settings didn't warrant it. Even in some of the well-lit images, I was getting noise where there shouldn't be any.

I put the lens cap on the lens I used for the shoot and used the same settings for both electronic shutter and mechanical. These were the results. I won't be using electronic shutter for anything of any importance again.

I should add that the difference was more apparent in Capture One than in Lightroom, and the only alteration I did to either of these images was an increase in exposure of 1.75.

(Electronic First Curtain gave a result similar enough to Electronic that I didn't keep the files.)