Flicker-safe shutter speeds cheat sheet

I put together a one‑pager mapping common LED, fluorescent, and sodium fixtures to safe shutter speeds for 50/60 Hz after losing a full set to banding last December in a high school gym. Happy to share the PDF, and if you’ve run into any edge‑case lights — those 2020 warehouse LEDs that drift a few Hz or scoreboards pulsing at 120 — tell me and I’ll add them.

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I’ve salvaged a 60 Hz high school gym by turning off electronic/silent shutter and using Canon’s “Anti‑flicker shooting” with the mechanical shutter, staying clean at 1/800–1/1000. The tradeoff is a touch of shutter lag and a slight hit to burst cadence, but it beats banding. For those “2020 warehouse LEDs that drift a few Hz,” I drop to 1/500 and it steadies up.

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