[Leica] Light tripods and electronic first curtain

[roark.paul at gmail.com (Paul Roark)]

Apparently, the e-1st curtain starts to produce artifacts at high speeds.
Some say above 1/1000th it is a problem.  I suspect also that with no dark
time for the sensor before the exposure, the image has a bit more noise.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com



On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 10:31 PM, Frank Filippone <red735i at verizon.net>
wrote:

> I think the IS did help.  #3 is sharpest......  By a bit...
>
> Which brings up a really dumb Sony A7 question.....
> If you can either turn on or off the first shutter electronic curtain, why
> would you EVER want the first curtain to move?  Why not ALWAYS use the
> electronic first shutter curtain?
> Ie, what do you lose in electronic first shutter curtain?
>
> ( Been bothering me for a while...)
>
> Frank Filippone
> Red735i at verizon.net
>
> This is a comparison of the Tiltall with the light Gitzo --
> http://www.paulroark.com/E-first-curtan-GitzoTraveler-200mm-60th-sec..JPG
>
> I'll have to do a lot more comparison shots before I know whether or how
> much the electronic first curtain can help.  But, in theory and consistent
> with this initial look, I'd say it might make light tripods more useful
> than
> they have been in the past.
>
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