No. 4 of the unofficial rules of photography is: "Always have a shutter speed." A photographic exposure can be defined as a certain amount of light hitting a sensor (or film) for a certain amount of ...

Have you ever wondered why still photography is thriving even though it’s so easy to capture video with our smartphones. I’d say it’s because there’s something endearing in the knowledge that a photo ...

Reply: Traditional wisdom is that the only way to freeze motion is with a fast shutter speed. In fact it can be done just as effectively with light pulses, effectively placing a virtual shutter ...

When you set your camera to Automatic or Program mode, it decides just exactly how to capture a properly exposed photo. There are three factors that contribute here—the ISO rating, which is a measure ...

Learning even just the basics of photography takes a bit of work and one of the more complex ideas is the relationship between ISO, aperture, and shutter speed. German photography blog Photoblog ...

With the Sony Cybershot as with any other camera, proper exposure is the key to a great photograph. Good exposure is achieved when the aperture, or size of the lens opening, shutter speed and sensor ...

A long exposure is a wonderful way to blur motion in photography. Rivers, waterfalls, waves and clouds can look stunning when captured as streaks of silky blur. But how slow do you go? Some parts of a ...

film by Tullio Pellegrini. The film explains the workings of a variable shutter in motion picture cameras, detailing its design, functions, and advantages over a standard shutter. It describes how the ...

To take a picture, the best digital cameras on the market open their shutter for around around one four-thousandths of a second. To snapshot atomic activity, you'd need a shutter that clicks a lot ...