For exposure times of 1 second or longer, these are typically displayed with a “ to denote seconds for example 1″, 10″ or anything up to 30″. To save space in the display, cameras do not show the speed as a fraction, so if you see ‘ 500‘ in the display, this means your shutter speed is actually 1/500 second. On a DSLR you’ll typically find it in the LCD on the top right-hand side of the camera, as well as displayed beneath the image within the viewfinder. Shutter speed is an important parameter for your exposure so it’s displayed prominently on all cameras.
Water running through a creek – 14 second shutter speed Do you know what your shutter speed is? To maintain the same overall exposure in our image, we must remember the exposure triangle and either double our ISO, or open up our aperture by one stop to compensate. This is therefore equivalent to a 1-stop change in exposure. If you double your shutter speed then the shutter will be open for half the amount of time so you half the amount of light that’s reaching the sensor. This mode keeps the shutter open for as long as you hold down the shutter button.
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Some pro level DSLRs will allow even faster speeds than 1/8000 and many will have ‘BULB’ mode for shooting at longer than 30 seconds. Further down this page you’ll find a handy reference chart that shows all of the standard options in between. The shutter speeds that are available to choose from might vary depending on the type of camera you are using, but typically a DSLR will go from 1/4000 all the way to 30 seconds. For example 1/250 means one two hundred and fiftieth of a second, or 1/8 means one eighth of a second. How is shutter speed measured?Ī camera’s shutter speed is measured as a fraction of a second for all speeds that are under a second. What shutter speed is fast enough? Well that will depend on your subject! Further down this article there’s a handy reference guide that’ll get you started with some typical scenarios. Most of the time we are looking to freeze our subject with a fast enough shutter speed and capture that one singular moment, but sometimes the creative effect of a slower speed can also be desirable.
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When you are taking a photo with your camera in a semi-automatic (TV/AV) or manual exposure mode, then consideration must be given to the required shutter speed for your subject. With the running water in the photo below, the static camera but blurry water gives the water a sense of fluid motion. It gives a sense of movement to the car, but doesn’t blur out any of the car’s detail if you keep the car in the same spot in the frame as you pan. We can select a fast shutter speed that freezes any action in a photo, or we can select a slow shutter speed that introduces ‘motion blur’ to any moving objects within our image.Ĭombining a panning motion of the camera (left to right, or right to left movement) with a slow shutter speed can be used to give a sense of speed, as in the car photo that opens this article. These three things work together to give us both creative control and also exposure control for our photos. Shutter speed is one of the three sides of our exposure triangle, along with aperture and ISO, that allow us to control the brightness of our image. The length of time that this shutter is open is called the shutter speed and also sometimes referred to as ‘exposure time’.
Porsche 911 During the Le Mans 24 Hours – 1/30 second shutter speed What Is Shutter Speed?Įvery camera has a physical shutter, like a curtain, that opens and closes to expose the sensor to the light coming in through your lens when you press the shutter button.
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