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Originally Posted by evilpeople
As an amateur photographer, I'll take a little exception to this. While you are correct that point-and-shoot (non SLR) digital cameras do not have a shutter, almost all DSLR cameras do. The term is not archaic at all - it is just not relative to THIS camera. The same way that focal length and ASA (ISO) are mixed in the film/digital world, so it shutter speed. Also, lots of amateurs and pros still use film, so the idea of film cameras being "archaic" is not really correct.
Ah, well - we're just talking about crappy cameras  |
Whoa,,, hold on just a tiny second...
Shutters are very archaic, in the fact that they have been around a long long time... and yes photographers still use film, and photographers use SLR cameras,, these cameras have the abillity to set your exposure and light intake and other settings,, thus requiring them to have a shutter........ Cell Phones Do Not,,,,,,,,,
Record Players are Archaic,, but as a D.J. I own 2 of them,, that doesnt change the fact that they are archaic.... even though professionals still use turntables instead of cd players and mp3,,, still doesnt change the fact that they are archaic...
So I am 100% correct in stating that Shutters are archaic.... even though professionals still use cameras with shutters,, they are still what would be considered archaic..
That doesnt mean they are not still used,, and not still useful...
They just have absolutely nothing to do with this thread...........
On a cell phone,, and most digital cameras there is no such thing as a shutter.. so the reason for me saying what I did about shutters sir,,
is the fact that we need not discuss shutter speed in this thread when discussing the cameras on our phones...
The software on these phones tells the capture device what fraction of a second it should capture and encode...
the software also tells the ccd how many frames per second to scan,,,
so if you break it down,, its like this...
if the capture is set to lets say 250 milliseconds,, or 1/4th of a second,, and the device is set to scan at lets say 10 frames per second,,, then the device will intake more light seeing as the ccd will stay active for longer portions throughout the capture... though motion will be more blurry
if it moves to say 20 frames per second it is capturing less resident light but will have crisper images,,, if the lighting conditions permit
so the length that the software captures an image would be called the shutter speed...
the frames per second would be considered the aperature setting. or light intake..
these 2 things are basically the same thing as what are used for shutter and aperature in hardware cameras and could carry over to the photography world easily,,
I was simply just trying to clarify to these other folks the proper direction we need to take on this matter...
I believe that this camera is not controlled by hardware,,, I believe that it is software controlled,,,
but.. and this is a big butt,,, it is not a registry key that controls this.. because the cameras state is always static (meaning changes constantly) so it would have to be a part of the active software controlling capture length and frames per second...
so if any gurus out there want to dismantle the camera software and look at the code,, and see if it can be modified,, it would be great.....