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Electronic shutter: advantages and disadvantages

Started Sep 6, 2015 | Discussions thread
Dave Lively Senior Member • Posts: 1,938
Re: Grand Prix de Circuit de la Seine

Jacques Cornell wrote:

I didn't know there were large formate cameras with focal plane shutters. I've only ever seen ones with leaf shutters. Can you tell me anything more about this camera? I looked around and couldn't find anything.

The best known one was the Speed Graphic , a very common camera for news photographers until after WW2. The Speed Graphic was not available until 1912 according to Wikipedia but similar cameras existed before.

It took a long time for the focal plane shutter to sweep across the 4 inch sheet of film.  At least they did not have to worry about banding under florescent lights back then.

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