Olympus E5 question.

On Thu, 2 Jul 2015 11:16:33 +1200, Me wrote:

On 2/07/2015 10:13 a.m., nospam wrote:
In article ,
Sandman wrote:

I have this camera and when I use "live view" to take a photo I
still get the mirror flying up and down. This takes time for
candid shots.

Sandman:
Uh, what camera do you have? When using live view, the mirror is
up, or you wouldn't see anything on your display. Are you saying
that your mirror comes up when you activate live view, and then
comes down again when you take a picture? That doesn't make any
sense at all.

yes it does. some slrs switch out of live view mode and go through a
normal mirror cycle.

Yes, I googled the Olympus and apparently it does that, which is just weird.
It's
weird enough it goes through a normal shutter cycle, but that I can live
with,
including the mirror into the cycle as well seems like someone didn't really
think it through when designing the camera.

it's not weird. nikon does the same thing.

it makes sense if you 'think it through'.

Not all Nikons do this - my D300 did, but D800E doesn't.

Neither does the D750.

The D300 also
has the option to use PDAF in LV, in which case the mirror had to drop
down. (CDAF in liveview was essentially useless on the D300, it's only
half-useless on later model Nikon SLRs)
When the D800E shutter is released in LV mode, the shutter first closes,
then releases, but the mirror doesn't move. While there's no
mirror-slap with this system, there is shutter shock - so exposure delay
mode is useful to avoid residual vibration from the shutter first
closing (the rear curtain closing causes much more vibration than the
front curtain opening - but that shock when it snaps shut is too late to
cause a problem). With exposure delay mode, the shutter closes
immediately and stays closed until the exposure is commenced after the
preset delay.
With the D810, there's electronic front curtain shutter, presumably
decreasing (residual) shutter shock from the front (mechanical) curtain
as it opens - by commencing exposure only after it's open.
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Regards,

Eric Stevens