X2D electronic shutter with flash

[ndwgolf]

Yesterday I mounted a Nikor 135:2.0 on my X2D turned on the electronic shutter and tried to use it in a studio setting with flash. I could not get the flash to fire. Am I missing something or is that just the way it is.
Flash won’t fire with the electronic shutter?
Thanks Neil

 

[Knorp]

 

[ndwgolf]

Cheers mate. Appreciate that

 

[Phase V]

And that's what makes this otherwise interesting camera
completely useless for macro photography with flash.

 

[miriquidi]

As a possible workaround for stationary macros (where you shoot F22 or so anyways): You could use a tripod, long exposure time (2 s?) and trigger the flash gun by hand within that 2 s. That may work, but of course it's slow and needs a lot of test shots to get the right exposure.

 

[nickw]

Electronic shutter is a scanning of the sensor, Line by line, pixel by pixel, so to speak. It is subject to rolling shutter effects.

What we need ideally is a global shutter. Global shutter would capture the values for all photosites on the sensor at the same time. Then we can have an electronic flash sync at any speed. It will be a good day when this tech is adopted by Sony for medium format sensors.

 

[miriquidi]

Also with a normal electronic shutter you can do flash photography. Canon R1 and so on have respectable sync times.

The Global shutter technology used in Sony A9 III would give a crop MF cameras an image quality comparable to something like APS-H format.
Yes, Global shutter sensors can go to far faster shutter speeds with flash than available with leaf shutters. But I can tell you, that such ultra-fast speeds are problematic, as you fast run out of flash light. Even for macro, one flash with 1/16'000s is quite dim at close range.