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Fully silent shutter has banding issues along with issues of rolling shutter. Not to mention I think you only get 12-bit RAWs.
A9/ii are pretty much the only bodies where permanently using silent shutter is viable.
For the most part it's fine.
Can slightly ruin your bokeh at around 1/4000s and also may cause some rolling shutter type issues again around 1/4000s.
Have a read of this
What’s the fastest shutter speed you should use with EFCS on the a7RII? - the last word
Yesterday I looked at shutter travel time for silent shutter operation on the Sony a7RII. Incidentally, we noted that the electronic first curtain shutter (EFCS) pretty faithfully emulated the acceleration of the mechanical second curtain, at least at 1/500 second. On the Nikon D810, EFCS stops...blog.kasson.com
Though the testing with A7Rii I think A7C has a higher clearance speed than the A7RII body. Si you are probably fine till 1/2000s.
I've seen banding with my Panasonic cameras but the latest ones seem to have an anti flicker function and banding now seems to be banished... or at least I haven't seen it for a long time. I see from the pdf that the A7c has an anti flicker function, doesn't that help with electronic shutter banding?
I can't say I've seen electronic shutter bokeh effects either.
Having to manually switch between mechanical and electronic for wide aperture shots in good light is yet another right royal pita. I hoped we'd left that behind at least in ff but apparently not. 1/4k would limit me to f2.8 or smaller unless I want to go back to juggling ND's, and I don't.