Digital Still CameraDSC-RX1RM3Help Guide

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Mechanical Shutter:

Shoot with the mechanical shutter.

Electronic Shutter:

Shoot with the electronic shutter.

Characteristics and usages of the different shutter types

[Mechanical Shutter] and [Electronic Shutter] each have the following characteristics. Select a shutter type according to the shooting conditions.

Electronic Shutter

Allows you to shoot at a faster shutter speed than [Mechanical Shutter]. Using a high shutter speed can prevent overexposure when you shoot with a small F-number in bright environments, such as outside in bright sunlight, on a beach, or on a snowy mountain.

However, image quality may be affected in the cases described below. In such cases, we recommend shooting with [Mechanical Shutter].

• When shooting indoors under fluorescent or LED lighting with a fast shutter speed, band-like shading may appear in images because of flickering of the lighting.
• When shooting a fast-moving subject, distortion may occur in images because [Electronic Shutter] exposes images sequentially from top to bottom.

Mechanical Shutter

By using leaf shutters, [Mechanical Shutter] on this camera produces less operating sound than the focal plane shutters used in interchangeable lens cameras. When shooting in a quiet environment, we recommend setting [Audio Signal(Shooting)] to [Off] to reduce sounds to just the faint sound of shutter operation.

Because [Mechanical Shutter] on this camera has only small differences in exposure timing according to the position within the image, you can shoot fast-moving subjects with minimal distortion. No flickering or band-like shading will occur.