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How do fast shutter speeds actually work?
All the answers above are, for the most part, correct. After a bit of net sleuthing, it turns out that, not only does the shutter band sweep across the sensor chip or film in sequence, but the sensor ...
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How do fast shutter speeds actually work?
Let me add some images.
On a mechanical shutter, you have two physical curtains (A) that move when you take a photo (B). The shutter speed is the average time the gap is over a zone of the sensor (C). ...
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How do fast shutter speeds actually work?
Your understanding is basically correct except that there is a rolling shutter effect with a mechanical shutter. But it is not nearly as bad as the typical electronic rolling shutter effect.
The ...
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How do fast shutter speeds actually work?
You can take a picture faster than 1/250, it just means that any individual position in the picture has been exposed for that duration, but not at the same time.
On these pictures (both taken at 1/...
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