You need a shutter speed tester, and luckily for us, [Stuart Brown] has one. There are no sharks involved in this build, but it does rely on laser diodes as a light source.

Camera shutter speed is an essential adjustment in photography – along with the aperture, the shutter moderates the amount of light entering the camera. Older cameras (and some newer ones) us… ...

If you want to freeze the motion of a moving subject, like many sports photographers do, then you need to use a fast shutter speed. Generally, to stop something that’s moving quickly, such as an ...

Shutter speed is one of the most important camera settings to understand if you want to get out of automatic mode and start being creative with your photography. Here we look at what shutter speed ...

Like other exposure settings, shutter speeds are calculated so that each step in shutter speed doubles (or halves) the exposure. So for example, changing your shutter speed from 1/30 sec to 1/60 ...

But a photographer has quite limited options. Certainly, there are more complicated exceptions such as time-lapses and time exposures, but in many situations, it comes down simply to shutter speed.

Shutter speed is typically measured in seconds and fractions of a second. A shutter speed of 1/100 will expose the sensor for a hundredth of a second. Likewise, ...

A shutter speed of 1/250 sec will freeze most slow-moving subjects, a speed of 1/1000 sec will freeze faster subjects such as a speeding car, and 1/8000 sec will stop all but the fastest subjects.

A shutter speed of 1/125th of a second may sound fast but is sufficient to stop the motion of someone walking only at a very leisurely pace. 1/500th of a second is enough to stop most athletes, ...

Understanding how the three elements of exposure work — aperture, shutter speed, and ISO — and how to use them will help you master your digital camera.