Shutter speed...

gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
edited January 7, 2005 in The Big Picture
If this shutter speed isnt a misprint i can only assume digital cameras are growing much faster than i ever thought.


http://www.dpreview.com/news/0501/05010504oly_c7070wz.asp

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  • fishfish Registered Users Posts: 2,950 Major grins
    edited January 7, 2005
    Humungus wrote:
    If this shutter speed isnt a misprint i can only assume digital cameras are growing much faster than i ever thought.


    http://www.dpreview.com/news/0501/05010504oly_c7070wz.asp

    typo...it's actually 1/4000s.
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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited January 7, 2005
    As you were.

    Looks like a misprint...others say 1/4000. Still lightning fast for a prosumer.
  • fishfish Registered Users Posts: 2,950 Major grins
    edited January 7, 2005
    Humungus wrote:
    As you were.

    Looks like a misprint...others say 1/4000. Still lightning fast for a prosumer.
    Half as fast as the 20D's fastest. ne_nau.gif
    "Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk." - Edward Weston
    "The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."-Hunter S.Thompson
  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited January 7, 2005
    fish wrote:
    Half as fast as the 20D's fastest. ne_nau.gif
    So the wizzbang D20 is only as fast as an old D70 then eek7.gif
  • mercphotomercphoto Registered Users Posts: 4,550 Major grins
    edited January 7, 2005
    Humungus wrote:
    So the wizzbang D20 is only as fast as an old D70 then eek7.gif

    What does one photograph at such high shutter speeds anyway?
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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited January 7, 2005
    ne_nau.gif .
  • jimfjimf Registered Users Posts: 338 Major grins
    edited January 7, 2005
    Humungus wrote:
    ne_nau.gif .

    Ha-ha, that's funny, but that one was done with a fast strobe, not a fast shutter.

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