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Electronic shutter: advantages and disadvantages

Started Sep 6, 2015 | Discussions thread
belcanto Contributing Member • Posts: 557
Re: You can take advantage of the disadvantages

rambler35 wrote:

Hen3ry wrote:

Banding with LCD lights too. Nasty!

But -- you can use the rolling shutter to advantage. For example, a mild use:

I used the effect to suggest that these old cars were traveling at speed (and indeed they were).

Looks like something out of a Brockbank (of blessed memory) cartoon! in fact, Brockbank got his leaning cars by drawing from photographs of racing cars taken with large format Graphic SLRs which had vertically running shutters over their 5x7" "sensors" which took about 1/10th of a second for the slit between the two curtains to traverse the height. So they got rolling shutter effects and nobody said nuffin because that's just about all they had!

Yes, your photo shows how an e-shutter could be used on a suitable subject to mimic the effect of those focal-plane shutters of yesteryear.

However, my memory of those old racing pictures (and I think, of the drawings derived from them) is that usually they showed the cars leaning forwardswhich enhanced the impression of speed. So just a suggestion Henry, next time maybe try shooting with the camera held up-side-down ?

.-- Richard --

Like this.

Kjell

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