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Shutter Vibration / Shutter Shake vs Electronic First Curtain / EFC Shutter
See also examples of shutter vibration / shutter shake.
Also, search for EFC shutter.
On a DSLR, mirror slap can blur the image, leading to the advice to use mirror lockup. Ideally, mirror lockup would be enough, but the shutter itself can cause substantial vibration, particularly with large shutters in medium format cameras and/or powerful shutters—those with very high speeds like 1/8000 second; that mass has to accelerate powerfully and decelerate just as quickly. Physical laws dictate that the force has to propagate somewhere into the system. Thus, even mirror lockup is not a solution for a DSLR (though some DSLRs offer an EFC shutter, see below).
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