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Working with an electronic shutter control

Working with an electronic shutter control

From the course: The Practicing Photographer

Working with an electronic shutter control

- Been out here shooting these flowers for the last few minutes, and I'm finding myself a little frustrated by something. I want to shoot shallow depth of field but it's bright out here. It's not going to be bright for much longer but I'm really liking the light that I have on it. But when I open my nice fast lens here, all the way up to f/1.4, I'm getting shutter speeds that go faster than a 4000th of a second. And this camera doesn't have a shutter that will go that fast. So I've got a couple of options. I can put neutral density filters on. Those are filters that cut light without changing its color or quality. And so that would buy me some latitude to open up my aperture. Or I can activate a special feature on this camera, which is its electronic shutter. So normally, like most cameras, this camera uses a mechanical shutter. It's got a series of curtains that open and close to expose the sensor. But it's also got an option to turn on an electronic shutter, which means it's gonna…

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