Can some1 tell me what's the shuter speed for?
How do i adjust it? I'm using Canon 860IS camera, just wonder the shuter speed is use for ??
Sorry, noob here ...

Shutter speed is used when you are shooting in low light condition, such as night scenery. You can't use flash to shoot a night view as this will spoil the nice view of night scene. In this case, you will play with the shutter speed.

Another time when you need to play with shutter speed when you want a 'freezing' effect of the river / waterfall flows... or the 'freezing' effect of the grass blown by wind....

To use Shutter speed, turn your function to Tv (not very sure if Canon 860IS has capability to select Tv mode).

Hmm ... thanks for advise. But so far this see any function which call function "Shuter Speed"
Izzit i set the time longer, the better effect i capture?
Don't tell me shuter speed is ISO ...

what a crappy analogy, but oh well...

well.... i know you're hungry at the moment... so let's start cooking!!!

How about having some Maggi Mee?

Let's say cooking a packet of Instant noodles at full flame is going to cost you 3 minutes of your time. But oh no... wait a minute! you need 5 minutes to enjoy puffing a cigarette before your meal. Now your noodles gonna get soggy because its going to get overcooked by the time you finish your cigarette, so you adjust the flame to half-flame (for example).

Now, in photography terms, how long you leave the noodles on the stove is the Shutter speed. Too short then it's terrible to eat, too long then it's over cooked. The right amount of time is the right exposure. But wait, that's not all, how your noodles turn out also depends on how intense you set the flames to. So it's how long you set your pot on the stove & how intense the flames are. So while the duration of how long you set to cook is the Shutter Speed, then the flames must the Aperture. Now do you understand the correlation between these two?

ISO? That's the third factor to determine how your noodles get cooked. Umm... let's just assume ISO is the thickness of your pot. With everything else the same, the thicker your pot is, the longer your noodles get cooked... But if your pot is thinner, it's going to be more sensitive (higher ISO means higher sensitivity), so you need less time.

Anyway cooking your noodles for 5 minutes with half-flame and cooking your noodles at 3 minutes with full-flame will get your noodles cooked, but to some people, it doesn't taste the same, so in photography terms,- go figure!!!

HAHAHA....

faster shutter speed will be useful to capture fast moving objects. it will also avoid blurry due to hand shake (not stable when taking pics). however, faster shutter speed means the shutter closes quickly, hence allowing less light to enter. exposure will be lower (darker image).

slower shutter speed will increase exposure, because the shutter will open for a longer period. picture will be brighter. however, it will cause blurry image due to shaking hands, or blurry subject because they are moving.

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This post has been edited by AbangCorp: Nov 13 2007, 11:34 PM

Thanks to all advise especially the maggie mee cooking =.=
Nice example given ...

Btw, i checked my photo that the exposure is actually same as my shutter speed?
I increased more on the exposure the brighter my image, is this the same setting?? Quite blur ...

Question:
Exposure = Shuter Speed??

Paiseh asking so many question ..

exposure is NOT shutter speed...
instead...
shutter speed is one of the factors that affect exposure...
the other factors are ISO and Aperture...
and also Exposure compensation...=)

shutter speed is essentially how long u leave ur camera sensor to expose to the light....
the longer it is...the more light comes in...the brighter ur pics will be...

And of course.. At lower shutter speeds your image may be blurred due to hand shakes (Can be corrected with a tripod) or the object is moving.


However at higher shutter speeds, the image will appear to be darker as less light is allowed to enter.

more faster shutter speed, more darker the image result

after learn the shutterspeed u gotta be balance with ISO too

Not only balance with ISO.. Balance with Aperture to have the right exposure

As to directly answer your question where Exposure = Shuter Speed??

You probably adjusted a parameter called Exposure Compensation. As your camera sensor on Automatic mode tries to determine the proper combination of ISO, aperture, and shutter speed to get what it feels the "correctly" exposed picture, you as a photographer might evaluate the scene differently from what the camera suggests. So now, Exposure Compensation comes into the picture. Let's say you want your noodles soggier than what normally people like... so you either turn up the heat more, or leave it to cook longer... similarly, your camera does the same. It automatically adjusts the "levers" to get what you want.

optimumly, regardless how fast the shutter speed is, the brightness of the image should stay the same because your camera will automatically tune the other "levers" (Aperture & ISO) to ensure your picture is exposed properly. Only exception is on Manual mode where changing Shutter speed does not affect the other "levers" and the end result is a darker picture.

So if you select a faster shutter, the camera compensates by increasing ISO, or opening up the Aperture wider (Back to Maggi Mee example, shorter cooking time cooked compensated by having a bigger flame and ummmm... thinner pot). Only when the max ISO or widest aperture is reached, and you still aren't allowing enough light to enter, then only the image becomes "darker" or underexposed. (Yes, there's a max to how big you can get the fire to be, isn't there?)

cool topic
i really learn alot here
simple but easy to understand explanation
thanks all