Questions tagged [shutter-speed]
The shutter speed is a measure of how long how film or sensor is exposed to light, due to the shutter being opened and closed. This is usually measured in seconds, or fractions of a second. Longer shutter speeds allow more light to onto the film or sensor and allow more subject movement.
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How can I take a photo using a slow shutter speed without it being overexposed? [duplicate]
When I try to take a picture using a slow shutter speed in daylight it is overexposed. How can I change the settings so it isn't overexposed?
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In what way does shutter speed affect a photo?
Is there a rule like "the lower the speed the better quality?"
I tried taking at different speeds but couldn't understand the difference.
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Why did early photographs need such long exposure times?
I recently read on Wikipedia (can also be found on other sources) that the first photographs/cameras needed exposure times of several images, sometimes up to hours.
e.g. The caption for this image:
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Why is my Nikon D300 slow to respond to shutter press regardless of shutter speed?
I hope you can help me with troubleshooting this issue.
In an effort to better understand my camera (I know, I know, I'm buying a book soon but I need this problem solved ASAP) I started messing ...
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Slowest shutter speed possible using a monopod?
What would be the slowest shutter speed possible while using a monopod and would it make more sense having IS turned on while using a monopod for slow shutter speed?
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Tactics to avoid motion blur in low light conditions
I shoot stationary subjects that are subject to motion (like a standing person that might move vs a perfectly still landscape) with my camera hand held. Normally I try and stay at 1/200 or faster when ...
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How does the image form during a long exposure?
I was checking out the working principle behind a camera recently. I was amazed after learning how you can use slow shutter speed settings to take shots like this:
So, if I set the shutter speed to ...
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How can I shoot in a semi-dark room without very long shutter speeds?
I took a photo in a darkish room. It was in the middle of a cloudy day, but curtains were over the windows, so inside the room it was dark, yet you could see everything.
I set aperture priority mode ...
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What's the difference between a closed and open aperture diaphragm for night street photos?
I'm capturing a picture during night and to a street with a lot of cars running over the street.
What happens (in general, from a theoretical point of view) if I shoot the same photo under the ...
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Two pictures, equal exposure and one is brighter
I took two pictures, both of them have equal exposure, I changed the shutter speed and aperture. One is brighter than the other. Is that normal? If not what do I do to make the two pictures look a ...
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Relationship between shutter speed and amount of light?
With all else remaining the same (ISO, aperture etc.) is there a way to compensate for changes in the lighting of the scene by changing the shutter speed of the camera such that the intensity of the ...
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Dark zone appearing on pictures when using an external flash [duplicate]
(Moved here from chat)
I faced a trouble with my Canon 6D and a Canon SpeedLite 430ex II...
I took some shots and here is the result I've had :
I've used the very same shutter speed as I was using ...
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How can I achieve this style where the subject isn't blurred but bright lights will be light-painted? [duplicate]
I've been going through a company's photographer photos and I could narrow down two styles I'd like to develop and use in my shots, but I cannot figure out how he managed to do it:
It looks like it's ...
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How to photograph panning with a point and shoot camera?
I have recently learnt about panning photography on the internet and I was curious about capturing one myself,
But as an amateur I just own a Point and shoot camera (Samsung SL30),
I have ...
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High shutter speed VS ND filter
I wonder, when you have too much light for example in snowy conditions, you can reduce the amount of light by using ND filter or High shutter speed.
For videos it's obvious that shutter speed should ...
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Underexposure problem
I have a low level consumer dslr (Nikon D3400) and recently was trying to capture a bird flying in my backyard. It was around noon, bright sunny day. I was using a telephoto lens at 200mm to try to ...
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Why am I getting half black photos when using shutter speed faster than 1/250? (No flash)
When attempting to take photos in manual mode, if I use a shutter speed faster than 1/250 I get half black photos.
Body: Canon 6D Mark ii
Lens: Canon EF 50mm 1.8
It's also worth noting that i'm not ...
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Does doubling the ISO reduce the shutter speed in half? [duplicate]
Simple question really. When you double the ISO does it mean your shutter speed needs to be half of the original value to have the same brightness in the image?
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Does exposure compensation affect shutter speed in aperture value mode?
When I am shooting in AV/aperture value mode, and I switch to +1 EC, will it affect my shutter speed?
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How to manually select aperture and shutter speed but have auto ISO on a Canon 7D?
I want to be able to manually adjust aperture and shutter speed, but leave ISO being set automatically. How can I do this on my Canon 7D?
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Long exposure mode in Nikon with a Remote shutter control
I want to learn and do some long exposure photography from cars in highways, etc.
So I got a wireless remote shutter control! Now in the settings of the camera I ...
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What is the minimum shutter speed for handheld? [duplicate]
I've heard different rule of thumbs for shutter speed. Some will say that it should be no slower than 1/60. Some will say that it should be 1/Focal length. Yet some others will say that to be ...
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How to coax 8-sec shutter on aperture prio film cam?
Camera: Yashica Electro 35 cc
Hi guys!
Multiple records about my camera model indicate that it has a shutter speed range of 1/250 to 8sec.
However, I recently tried to photograph an orange streelit ...
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Creating a synthetic image from an original image with a given shutter speed
I have an original jpeg image captured by a camera. I want to change the photo to another image so that the new image resembles the one which would have been taken with a camera with a different ...
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calculate the 1/x format of shutter speed from given floating point value
How to calculate the x in 1/x format when all i got is decimal floating point representation of the shutter speed ( for example 0.0101316 and possibly other data in exif )?
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How to shoot action shots with Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ10?
I have a Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ10 camera and was recently at the football. I tried taking some pictures of the players who were moving at very high speed but they were incredibly blurred.
I adjusted ...
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Can I change my shutter speed multiple times for one film?
I am a beginner to film photography and I just got a new camera (Canon EOS 88). From different questions, I got that the ISO setting needed to be the same for the whole film (meaning that I can't ...
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If you double ISO and halve shutter duration, how would it affect SNR?
Assuming the SNR is shot limited. Would it be the square root of 2 because of the shutter speed?
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Panasonic FZ1000: Flash FP high-speed sync oddities, 1/16000s mechanical shutter?
Because the Panasonic LUMIX FZ1000 uses a leaf shutter, there is no maximum sync speed; the flash can be used throughout the entire range of mechanical shutter speeds, as high as 1/4000s (1/3200s ...
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How do Polaroid cameras determine the shutter speed and how can I manipulate this?
I am a bit confused about the shutter speed in some Polaroid cameras.
Precisely, I have these models:
polaroid Impulse (old)
polaroid One Step 2 (new)
I often read that polaroid cameras have a ...
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How to test if the shutter of a Canonet QL-17 is still working?
I want to get into analog photography and want to check if my dad's old Canon still works; especially if the shutter is still in working order (as that model seems to suffer from sticky shutter blades)...
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Is it possible to make the shutter speed slower than 30 seconds on the Canon 4000D? [duplicate]
I have a Canon 4000D and I would like to take some long exposure photography. It only allows shutter speeds up to 30 seconds and I would prefer to have the ability to take shots that are exposed for 1 ...
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How much longer can my shutter speed be for a given focal length with OIS on a Fujifilm X-series camera?
I have the XF 50-140mm and the XF 100-400mm zooms for Fujifilm X-T2.
I heard for crop sensors to use the 1/(2× focal lenth) rule rather the 1/(1× focal length) for full frame. So, without OIS on a ...
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Olympus Pen EES-2: Can the ASA move?
I have recently acquired an Olympus Pen EES-2 from my grandmother. I am new to photography in general and would like to ask about the camera itself.
Attached here is the sample photo of the EES-2 ...
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Is there a formula to calculate ISO according to Shutter speed? [duplicate]
Note: This is not a duplicate of "Exposure Triangle things". This is more related to Camera's auto settings i.e. Aperture and human's manual settings i.e. Shutter and ISO and their co-relation.
I am ...
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Shutter sync issue with Godox X2T-N and Nikon D5100
I just purchased a Godox X2T-N transmitter for my Nikon D5100, along with a Godox TT600 speedlite.
Playing with it I noticed pictures were cut in half horizontally, the upper part being more ...
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Time difference between Auto Mode and Other modes
I'm a super newbie to photography. I would like some clarification on the following:
I am shooting an image in Auto mode. There is no shutter lag at all and the picture looks good. The settings are: ...
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Finding the real settings of my camera
I installed the CHDK firmware on my camera. One of the options it has is to show the "true" ISO that any given displayed ISO represents (eg. display ISO 80 is really ISO 45). This got me wondering: ...
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Can I fix inaccurate (sticky!) shutter speed on Canon FTb?
I had a Canon FTb come in today and decided to test it out.
When firing off a some shots, I felt the faster shutter speeds were accurate; however, I noticed that anything 1/4s or slower was ...
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Where can I find tables of common shutter speed and aperture values? [duplicate]
I'm working on image processing software (mind that I'm a programmer and when talking about photography, I'm "tabula almost rasa").
In this software, I'm using a RAW decoder that returns a data ...
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Why does the sound seem different when taking picture in RAW vs JPEG?
I'm using Nikon D300. I've just switched image format from RAW to JPEG today. The sound of shutter seems different (faster than in RAW format) although they're as same shutter speed (I know that ...
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Bracket on shutter speed with auto ISO
I have my camera on manual mode, with auto ISO, and I would like to bracket 3 photos changing shutter speed (keeping the same ISO for all 3 shots). Can I do that on auto ISO?
I'm using a Canon EOS ...
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VIdeo with 24 fps and 1/50 shutter speed settings - where have the "redundant" frames gone? [closed]
Just delved into the photo, video science and stuck at this point.
Ok, there is a recommendation:
It is suggested that you double the FPS to get your working shutter speed, so when shooting at 24 FPS,...
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Bracketing seems to have no effect (Canon T6s)
I am editing photos of the total solar eclipse 2019. I configured my Canon Rebel T6s to aperture priority and fixed ISO 100. I used bracketing +/-2/3. However, some pictures have identical shutter ...
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What can cause yellowish horizontal bands when using a relatively high shutter speed? [duplicate]
I'm using a Canon 6D, using my Canon 50 mm f/1.8 lens.
I was taking pictures of my son using his "youpala" (no idea how you say that in english :D) last night, in my kitchen, with only my ceiling ...
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How to Make Indoor Photography Not Blurry [duplicate]
I am a beginning photographer with a Canon Rebel XTI. I'm trying to get indoor portraits of my son, but I can't seem to get non-blurry photos because the shutter speed is too slow as I need to let the ...
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What can a very short shutter speed do for me? [duplicate]
Some camera have more shutter speed ,some are less.How it will effect Or use of that in photography.Which one considered as best
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Why is my Nikon camera limited to ¹⁄₂₀₀th shutter speed even though I'm not using a flash?
The maximum shutter speed I'm able to set my D600 to is 200. Can someone help me figure out why? I am NOT using a flash attachment so I'm not sure what the probem is.
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How can I get a high shutter speed and correct exposure when taking photos of horses in an indoor arena?
So I do a lot of inside photos. The problem that I'm having is a need a fast shutter speed without a flash. Like horses inside an arena. I can't have a flash but I need to take still photos. But the ...
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Milky way photography without startrails [duplicate]
I am from sri lanka.
I want to photograph milky way.
Canon 750D EFS 18-135 lens
I know that i should increase aperture & increase iso.
What should be the shutter speed for this camera to ...
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