shutter speed
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of shutter speed
First recorded in 1885–90
Example Sentences
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Jiří Hřebíček created an artistic image of a carrion crow by using a long shutter speed while moving his camera on purpose.
From BBC • Oct. 8, 2024
At the next drugstore, Faryar came out with Kodak film in yellow boxes, showed Diltz the instructions on the back, how to set the shutter speed.
From New York Times • Nov. 14, 2023
“You basically want to have the shutter speed as short as you can get away with, but capturing enough light,” Norris explained.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2023
Note the shutter speed on the easy-to-read top display.
From The Verge • Sep. 9, 2022
Like a pilot dipping the plane into a tailspin to practice pulling back out, she would deliberately take photos out of focus, with the wrong shutter speed or the wrong ISO, to see what happened.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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