Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Glass breaking captured with high speed photography. Even though SLR cameras adopted digital image sensors as far back as the ...

SLRs didn't have leaf shutters in the film days either. There's a few reasons for that. Firstly leaf shutters tend not to allow high shutter speeds unless you want massive vignetting, generally ...

The Part 1 of this series about digital camera design has shown how to do the basic calculations that interrelate pixel size, focal length, focal ratio, and spot size, and demonstrated how these ...

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I grew up with film SLRs (full-frame, of course), and the rule of thumb was "the slowest shutter speed you should try to hand-hold is 1/your lens focal length in mm." e.g. 1/50 sec for a 50 mm lens.

Some image sensors must either use a mechanical shutter or a pulsed light source to capture an image. For example, full-frame CCD image sensors, that are used for scientific applications such as ...