Viewfinder Lag A9 Mark 2

[Snerkler]

I have the Sony ILCE-9M2 and have been very disappointed in the EVF lag when shooting slow speed shutter panning shots. In the manual it says you need to be at 1/125 and above to get a smooth image in the viewfinder, but at slower shutter speeds (1/50 and slower) it becomes almost unusable as the lag is terrible, it's almost like you're watching a slide show one frame behind when you're use the continuous burst shutter.

It behaves like the Olympus OMD EM1 that I used to have, however this was resolved in the EM1 Mark II. I am surprised that such an expensive flagship camera (at the time of release) has these characteristics and I'm wondering if there are any settings that I can try to eliminate this as much as possible please? I see that the A1 has a low frame rate limit setting to help with this, I wonder if the A9 Mark 2 be getting a similar setting with a future update?

[danardeng]

I'd love to help you by reporting my experience with the A9, but unfortunately this is not the case 😞 I'd love to have an A9, but actually I don't have.

The behavior you describe is quite understandable, I find as normal. However, there may be a way out.
I try to give you some ideas: try to disable "Setting Effect" https://helpguide.sony.net/ilc/1960/v1/en/contents/TP0002759062.html

[Snerkler]

Thanks, I think I’ve tried that before but I’ll try it again. 

[SkyNet404]

And it might be a hassle if you have set a lot of settings manually, but maybe try to reset the settings and test it once more, sometimes it gets affected by other camera settings.

[Snerkler]

Thanks, I'm not sure it's a fault, just the nature of the EVF and slow shutter panning. What makes me think this is that the instruction manual says to get a smooth display in the viewfinder you must use a shutter speed of 1/125 or faster. I was just wondering if there's settings that make it better. I've tried the EVF refresh rate setting and that doesn't help.

I may try resetting though as you can save user settings to an SD card and reinstall them.

[danardeng]

The refresh rate of EvF is not the sample rate of image.

All my A7, don’t slow down the sample rate on liveview with the shutter speed value. I find strange that it’s not selectable from any option on menu.

[danardeng]

Sorry but.. on manual there is no dubit

https://helpguide.sony.net/ilc/1960/v1/en/contents/TP0002795822.html

 

With electric shutter, refresh rate of display go with the shutter speed.

if you need to shoot pan, use first electronic and second mechanical curtain 

[Snerkler]

Thanks, I think you're right, I'm coming to the same conclusion that it's due to the blackout free shooting rather than the electronic shutter per se as other cameras I've used with electronic shutter but no blackout free shooting don't exhibit this same issue. Next time out at a motorsport event I'll experiment with mechanical shutter. 

[SkyNet404]

Yea that would be interesting to test out! Let us know if you find something new, and hopefully you can find the trick to do it.