I’ve improved my “flying spot” shutter slap testing setup by adding a mirror. The technique involved mounting a camera on a tripod and photographing a distant oscilloscope set up with its vertical input grounded, and the horizontal time base set to a value that gave four to eight divisions of movement in the time that… [Read More]
Archives for January 24, 2014
A plea for leaf shutters
Iliah Borg’s comment to one of yesterday’s posts got me thinking. After saying that a firmware fix for the a7R’s shutter slap didn’t look likely, he made a passing remark: “Maybe this type of camera needs a leaf shutter.” The more I think about it, the better the idea sounds. Leaf shutters are quiet. Leaf… [Read More]