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Global shutter is essential for serious drone photography or photography from platforms with undamped vibrations like machinery. It means you will have discontinuities in features of the picture. You will need to re-stich the photo or post process it. For video it is just bad. An example of such pixel perfect uses was we were able to know the size of a marking on the ground with centimetre accuracy by counting the pixels.

Modern gimbals are amazing and do away with much of the issue but if you are needing pixel accurate features global shutter is the way to go.




An example of global shutter issues https://youtu.be/qqsDMJ7iyM0?t=86


You mean an example of rolling shutter issues.


Yes thanks for the correct. I cannot edit the typo anymore :(




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