p.1 #1 · A7R VI Electronic Shutter fast enough to avoid banding?
Hello,
Is the electronic shutter of the A7R VI fast enough to take photos under natural and artificial lighting without getting banding? Can I use the A7R VI at weddings indoor to take photos with the electronic shutter without getting banding? Or do I need a camera with faster sensor?
Anybody use the A7R VI for weddings?
p.1 #2 · A7R VI Electronic Shutter fast enough to avoid banding?
MathiasLeon wrote:
Hello,
Is the electronic shutter of the A7R VI fast enough to take photos under natural and artificial lighting without getting banding? Can I use the A7R VI at weddings indoor to take photos with the electronic shutter without getting banding? Or do I need a camera with faster sensor?
Anybody use the A7R VI for weddings?
Best regards
No camera that has a read out speed above zero is going to 100% protect you from banding-
That being said, there should be zero concern with this camera shooting in any lighting situation. Also if you are that concerned in a very odd lighted indoor environment. Shift over to MS- That should resolve it.
p.1 #6 · A7R VI Electronic Shutter fast enough to avoid banding?
In my limited experience, the A7Rvi is usually OK for indoor photos if electronic shutter is set to 1/100th. At 1/160th and faster the banding can be quite strong. It always depends on the lighting. Sometimes mechanical shutter (with or without flash) is essential.
p.1 #7 · A7R VI Electronic Shutter fast enough to avoid banding?
I shoot with the A1ii, A9iii, and now the A7rVI. With the A7rV you had to use mechanical shutter to activate and use the menu's anti-flicker settings. This introduced a delay when you pressed the shutter as the camera measured the flicker rate.
The A1ii and A9iii both allow anti-flicker with the Electronic Shutter and works great. Just turn the setting on and shoot away.
The A7rVI appears to have lifted that tech and now works like the A1ii and A9iii with it's Anti-flicker setting working with it's e-shutter mode. You can either manually set the flicker rate, or turn on it's Anti-flicker 'TV' (time value scan) to set it automatically.
I only recently got the A7rVI so have not had to use that yet in an led lighting situation yet, but from what the manual says about it, I'm thinking it might should be fine. In any case, the mechanical shutter option on the prior A7rV did work fine in really bad situations with it's anti-flicker setting turned on so you could always fall back to that in case the e-shutter option doesn't work, but the manual sure seems to imply it works with e-shutter this go around.
On a side note, I did my first hummingbird shots today with the A7rVI and expected the wings to show all sorts of distortion (which it does on dragonflys). I normally grab my A9iii for dragonflys and hummers. But, the wings were fine with the hummers. It's a much faster readout than the A7rV was so I wouldn't be surprised if the e-shutter works for anti-flicker needs now.
(and the hummers were in a dark forest setting so shot at 12800 iso and the camera still instantly locked on the little bird's eye - pretty impressed with this camera!)
