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- From: huw@castle.ed.ac.uk (H G J Evans)
- Newsgroups: rec.photo
- Subject: Re: Testing shutter speeds.
- Message-ID: <30657@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 13:41:35 GMT
- References: <1993Jan19.020547.4308@adobe.com> <1993Jan21.111516.5922@spider.co.uk>
- Organization: Edinburgh University
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- In article <1993Jan21.111516.5922@spider.co.uk> mikec@spider.co.uk (Mike Coren) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan19.020547.4308@adobe.com> wtyler@adobe.com (William Tyler) writes:
- >>
- >>
- >
- >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
-
- Indeed it is. The leaf shutter is really just like another aperture in
- your lens, only one which closes completely. It opens from the centre up
- to full 'aperture' very quickly, stays open for the appropriate time,
- and then closes again very quickly. As a result, the whole film is
- exposed for the entire duration of the exposure. A consequence of this
- in available light shooting is that when a fast speed is selected, a
- significant part of the exposure is made at what may be a much smaller
- aperture than the one the photographer selected. At least that's what my
- understanding suggests. As I seldom use my leaf shutters at anything
- faster that 1/60 I haven't come across the phenomenon, but I have always
- wondered whether this means that a photograph taken at f/4 @ 1/500 would
- appear to have more depth of field than than it ought.
-
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