Soldato
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Hi. I'm not one to start these ***OFFICIAL*** threads, but I was just thinking about how the shutter mechanism works in SLR cameras and stumbled across this slow-mo video of how it works.
I always wondered how you'd get even exposure with the mirror working the way it does, the exposure would increase towards the bottom of the photos, but it looks like there are actually two shutter slides that operate once the mirror's out of the way. This makes more sense.
They follow eachother going down, then return in sequence going back up once the sensor has been covered. This is an old SLR, but I presume they still operate this way?
Anyway, here's the video. Ignore the sentiment if it doesn't seem appropriate to have a Youtube thread on here, just watch the video instead, but I always like watching photography-related youtube videos, if only to know what fantastic kit there is out there that I can't afford.
I always wondered how you'd get even exposure with the mirror working the way it does, the exposure would increase towards the bottom of the photos, but it looks like there are actually two shutter slides that operate once the mirror's out of the way. This makes more sense.
They follow eachother going down, then return in sequence going back up once the sensor has been covered. This is an old SLR, but I presume they still operate this way?Anyway, here's the video. Ignore the sentiment if it doesn't seem appropriate to have a Youtube thread on here, just watch the video instead, but I always like watching photography-related youtube videos, if only to know what fantastic kit there is out there that I can't afford.