Why not silent shooting all the time?

[blispix]

Just jumped from Nikon to a Sony A7R 3.  Love silent shooting.

The title says it all... any down side to silent shooting all the time?

[tinplater]

Can't shoot highest FPS, or set e front shutter curtain.  I like silent 95% of the time although on occasion I like to hear the shutter click.

[dbmiller]

• Can't use a flash.
• Slow sensor readout may cause rolling shutter type distortions.
• High shutter speeds may cause bokeh issue (Same as EFCS)

Probably many more.

[Lescatalpas]

And in artificial light (led ) you see the flickering at higher shutter speeds. Most of the time in theaters silent shooting is therefore of no use. 

[blispix]

Thanks!

[Monochrome]

Not an issue with your a7r3, but with the a7r2 the files drop from 14-bit to 12-bit in silent mode.

[Chrissie]

2 hours ago, Monochrome said:

Not an issue with your a7r3, but with the a7r2 the files drop from 14-bit to 12-bit in silent mode.

Very interesting! Do you have a source for that information? Because I wonder how turning off the sound would cause the color depth to decrease.

[Lagrimon]

On 12/21/2018 at 9:49 PM, Chrissie said:

Very interesting! Do you have a source for that information? Because I wonder how turning off the sound would cause the color depth to decrease.

You can find the information on the a7RII help guide.

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[Lagrimon]

Also on the help guide of the A7RII...

- When shooting images using [Silent Shooting], you cannot set an extended ISO at the lower end of values.

- After you turn the camera on, the time in which you can start recording is extended by approximately 0.5 seconds.

- When [Quality] is set to [RAW] (Uncompressed RAW) or [RAW & JPEG] (Uncompressed RAW) during silent shooting, bracket shooting is unavailable.

- Image distortion caused by the movement of the subject or the camera may occur.

- If you shoot images under instantaneous lightning or flickering lights, such as the flash light from other cameras or fluorescent lighting, a striping effect may occur on the image.

- When shooting still images using the [Silent Shooting] function with low ISO sensitivity, if you point the camera at a very bright light source, high intensity areas on the monitor may be recorded in darker tones.

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[Chrissie]

Well thanks, @Lagrimon, for this information. But I still wonder about the cause-effect relationship between silent shooting and the loss of color-depth resolution.