The Nikon Z7 has three shutter modes. The first is the old fashioned mechanical shutter (MS), with physical leading and trailing curtains. The second is a version of that where there is no physical first curtain. In that mode, electronic first-curtain shutter (EFCS), the function of the first curtain is replaced by a rolling reset… [Read More]

In the previous post, I looked at how the electronic first-curtain shutter (EFCS) in the Nikon Z7 caused exposure differences from the top to the bottom of the frame. A reader pointed out that the optimum electronic first curtain timing depends on the lens exit pupil. I don’t have a lot of lenses that I… [Read More]

I’ve done a lot of work on the way that electronic first curtain shutter (EFCS) works on the Sony a7x cameras, but I never did much with the EFCS in the Nikon Z-series cameras, except to measure how well the did at reducing vibration and the associated image sharpness. The reason was that I somehow… [Read More]

Over on DPR, when I was talking about the noise tests on the D5 and Z7 that I posted the day before yesterday, I remarked that the camera sensitivities appeared to be different, referencing a study I did on the Z5, a7RIII, and D850 some time ago. In that post, I found the D5 to… [Read More]