Thread started: Feb 29 2008, 9:22 PM EST
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The Flutter Shutter
I was reading that three engineers named Raskar, Agrawal and Tumblin have built a camera that removes the fuzzy streak created by an object that moves while the shutter is open. They explain that the way it is done is by opening and closing the shutter several time in rapid succession, with the total amount of open time calculated to give the correct overall exposure.
They go on to say that the shutter flutter mechanism could possibly eliminate the need for image stabilization lens and even the need for flash since the shutter could flutter until correct exposure was made.
Some of these innovations may never get out of the laboratory, and others are likely to be taken up by camera manufacturers. They say that the flutter shutter could be incorporated in a camera without extravagant expense.
How will that change the way we think about photography? Acknowledging that a photograph is a computed object, a product of algorithms, may work a further change.
Let’s see, is it the flutter shutter that causes the shutter to flutter or the shutter flutter that cause the flutter in the shutter?????
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