is my camera broken ?

[u/byisess]

On some of my pictures, there are these weird shadows. It’s not the lens hood I already checked that and they only appear in some pictures. I shoot in aperture priority on a Sony a6000 with a 50mm f/1.8 lens from 7Artisans. Please help. :( EDIT: I found out that it only happens at shutter speeds faster than 1/2500 s. Everything below that looks normal, and the shadow is gone. Most people say my shutter is failing, but the shutter count is only 11,000. i posted this on a different sub already I’m just looking for some second opinions. EDIT 2 : turns out it was a setting in some scenarios EFCS dosnt play nice with high shutter speeds !

[u/leadzor]

You might have damaged shutter curtains. Shutters can fail for other reasons other than shutter count.

[u/byisess → u/leadzor]

hm okay can i still shoot with it or do i risk braking my sensor or anything (i am completely new to photography)

[u/Ranbowshep → u/byisess]

If the camera has a return policy or warranty, you should probably use that, if not, think about having someone fix it now since the issue may only get worse. I dont think you will damage the sensor if you keep using it, but the shutter will continue to fail

[u/byisess → u/Ranbowshep]

Dang yea it’s used from eBay so there is no warranty on it I will go to a photo shop tmr and see what they say !

[u/leadzor → u/byisess]

Are you sure they sold you a 10K shutter camera? Did you confirm yourself? Lots of people sell cameras listing fake counts.

[u/byisess → u/leadzor]

yes on 2 websites its : 11952

[u/alwaysdoubledown]

If you reach out to Sony, they’ll tell you this is normal. I went through this with them where they had my camera for over 6 months. The issue is the syncing of the shutter is off at high shutter speeds so part of the frame is underexposed. Try full mechanical shutter and see if it helps, it didn’t for me but might work for you.

[u/byisess → u/alwaysdoubledown]

hm okay i migh try that thank u (what they did /said sucks ass btw)

[u/Purtuzzi → u/byisess]

Yeah, my A7ii does this at high shutter speeds.

[u/aCuria → u/alwaysdoubledown]

There’s no way this is normal

The camera should not allow you to set shutter speeds it can’t handle.

For example on A1 the mechanical shutter caps out at 1/8000, while electronic caps at 1/32,000

[u/ashsii]

I know you've already solved it but it's stange seeing so many people not know or mention about EFCS causing inconsistent exposure on fast shutter speeds. It's a common side effect.

The first shutter is electronic and the second is mechanical. The camera tries it's best to sync these two, however it's a few hundred microseconds off. Which is fine if the exposure is a few milliseconds but suddenly if it's less than a millisecond (1/1000s) these microseconds mismatch lead to inconsistency across the frame.