A camera's shutter is a moving slit. I built a page to show it, then watched nobody look.
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A camera doesn't capture a photo all at once. It captures it through a slit that moves. Inside a focal-plane shutter, two curtains chase each other across the frame. The gap between them is what actually exposes the film (or sensor). At 1/1000s that gap is around 2mm. At 1/8000s it's under half a m…
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- 2026-10-08 09:28 · DEV Community — AI
A camera's shutter is a moving slit. I built a page to show it, then watched nobody look.