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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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Can I change my shutter speed multiple times for one film?
There are many ways to explain how the “exposure” is controlled. We are taking about adjustments that impact the amount of light energy the film or digital sensor receives when you take a picture. I ...
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Can I change my shutter speed multiple times for one film?
Exposure Basics
ISO, shutter speed and aperture (f-stop) are (mainly) about the amount of light that hits the film, and you want to control that amount so that the film receives just that much light ...
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Can I change my shutter speed multiple times for one film?
ISO is simply the sensitivity of the film to light. You set your camera to match the ISO of the film so that the light meter in your camera is calibrated to the sensitivity of the film. Thats why you ...
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