Electronic Shutter

[Armagh]

Anyone have any idea why some photographs taken with the same lighting have dreadful stripes across them when I use the electronic shutter in the theatre on my X-T1 and yet some are fine seconds later? Is there anything I can do to prevent this?

 

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[Mike G]

I’m only guessing but has it a result of flouresent lighting and the ES interacting?

[milandro]

it is called banding or flickering and its effects are very well know especially to those who shoot video.

 

Light sources which produce this effect are not necessarily limited only to fluorescent and the same can be observed with LED (most common also on stage) and many more light sources.

[Armagh]

I’m only guessing but has it a result of flouresent lighting and the ES interacting?

Yes but I'm wondering why then did it not affect all photos taken virtually at exactly the same time. All were taken with electronic shutter.

[rokphish]

Because it's like rolling/burst... When it happens to capture at the exact moment of its happening then it shows up. Sometimes it doesn't hit at the exact moment so it's fine.

 

You could see it sometimes easier on TV, where you see a line of black lines rolling down. At some moment you don't see the black line at all.