{"id":937,"date":"2008-09-17T20:49:07","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T11:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2008-09-17\/937"},"modified":"2008-09-17T20:49:07","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T11:49:07","slug":"flash-sync-speed-and-other-mysteries-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2008-09-17\/937","title":{"rendered":"“Flash Sync Speed” and Other Mysteries Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n

My “Nikon D3 Shutter\nRelease in Super Slow Motion<\/a>” post from two weeks ago, in which I\noffered<\/span> a nice<\/span> presentation of the ingenious work by Marianne Oelund<\/a>, garnered\nquite a lot<\/span> of attention, quickly becoming the most popular post on my blog\n(which perhaps doesn't say much, but in any case, it's still – two\nweeks later – getting many thousands of views a day<\/span>).<\/p>\n\n\n

A lot of people have commented that they had no idea that a camera<\/span>\nshutter was so complex, and for the most part, that's okay because, for the\nmost part, photographers really don't need to be concerned with how the\nshutter works.<\/p>\n\n

For the most part.<\/p>\n\n

There are two situations in which knowledge of how a shutter<\/span> works can\nreally benefit a photographer<\/span>:<\/p>\n\n

    \n
  1. when the subject being photographed is moving very<\/i> quickly (e.g. the prop of a plane<\/span>)<\/li>\n
  2. when using a flash<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n

    If you are a photographer who might ever face either situation, you owe\nit to yourself to read Derek Miller<\/b>'s most excellent:<\/p>\n\n

    Camera\nWorks: shutters, flashes, and sync speed<\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n

    It's a really excellent<\/b> writeup about how the shutter design and\noperation is deeply related to how flash photography can be done. For\nexample, it explains in a clear,<\/span> concise manner “flash sync\nspeed<\/b>” and other mysteries.<\/p>\n\n

    Even if you never intend to use a flash,<\/span> or to photograph something\nmoving really quickly, if you're at all a camera<\/span> geek, you'll love his\nwriteup.<\/p>\n\n

    I can't believe it hasn't been mentioned on Strobist<\/a> yet. I'm sure it<\/span>'s only a\nmatter<\/span> of time.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    My \"Nikon D3 Shutter Release in Super Slow Motion\" post from two weeks ago, in which I offered a nice presentation of the ingenious work by Marianne Oelund, garnered quite a lot of attention, quickly becoming the most popular post on my blog (which perhaps doesn't say much, but in any case, it's still – two weeks later – getting many thousands of views a day).<\/p>

    A lot of people have commented that they had no idea that a camera shutter was so complex, and for the most part, that's okay because, for the most part, photographers really don't need [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}