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- From: mikec@spider.co.uk (Mike Coren)
- Newsgroups: rec.photo
- Subject: Re: Testing shutter speeds.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.111516.5922@spider.co.uk>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 11:15:16 GMT
- References: <1993Jan19.020547.4308@adobe.com>
- Organization: Spider Systems Limited, Edinburgh, UK.
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- In article <1993Jan19.020547.4308@adobe.com> wtyler@adobe.com (William Tyler) writes:
- >
- >You will see differences between focal plane and leaf shutters because
- >at higher speeds a focal plane shutter is passing a slit over the
- >film, so that the exposure of any one part of the film is short but
- >some exposure is occurring somewhere on the film over a period of
- >typically 1/60 sec. in older shutters. (This will correspond to the
- >maximum X synch shutter speed, since the maximum X synch speed is the
- >maximum speed at which the entire film is visible at one time.) This
- >moving slit is the reason why focal plane shutters can result in
- >distorted images when photographing moving objects.
- >
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- This implies that leaf shutters will not pass a slit, i.e. they will be
- fully open for all shutter speeds. This means that with a leaf shutter,
- you can have flash synch at all shutter speeds. Is this true?
-
- Mike
-
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- Michael D. Coren, Electrical Engineer mikec@spider.co.uk
- Telecommunications Techniques Corporation, Germantown, Maryland, USA.
- Temporarily at Spider Systems Limited, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
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