The purpose of a shutter is to control the amount of light reaching the image sensor. Back in the days of film, mechanical shutters were the only option and there were only two types: focal plane and ...

A rolling shutter on a camera exposes an image by scanning one section at a time instead of capturing a scene all at once. Mechanical focal plane shutters, at the fastest shutter speeds, will scan an ...

Here's another chance to read this great article by Phil Rhodes on why cameras need global shutters. Cheaper, cinematic cameras come with a cost - they tend to have Rolling Shutters, which means that ...

Unless you’ve been living under a lens cap, you’ll know that the Big N has launched the Nikon Z8. But beyond that juicy 45.7MP stacked CMOS sensor, the latest Expeed imaging processor and cutting-edge ...