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Understanding exposure with a leaf shutter camera

Understanding exposure with a leaf shutter camera

From the course: The Practicing Photographer

Understanding exposure with a leaf shutter camera

>> So my friend Zach here does a lot of flash photography, and he's interested in getting a new camera, and I wanted to show him something, so I dragged him out here to the railroad tracks so we could have a conversation, as one does. So, Zach, you, you know how a shutter works in a normal SLR. >> Yeah, most shutters in normal SLRs are vertical shutters, and they're actually two curtain shutters, so one shutter will fall, and then the other one will fall right after and then that'll expose your image and have the light hit the chip >> Okay. Very good, yeah and, and film cameras worked the same way. Often, they went horizontally. But it was still a, a first curtain and a second curtain. What I have here is a Fuji X100S. I really like this camera because it's an, it's an APS size chip. It's got a fixed 35mm equivalent lens. Really good in low light. I really like it for street shooting because it, it doesn't make any noise when you shoot with it. It's a, it's a really nice…

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