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[sinkoman]

[/IMG] why can't it be the same way as with an SLR? Never thought about that

Lol.

Cause with an SLR, the whole blur effect from the slow shutter speed, comes from extra light entering the lense, but not stacking ontop of the already exposed sections of the negative.

It's like taking a low opacity Photoshop brush, making a dot, then moving the brush a little, then making another dot (yet they stack), then moving it again, etc etc.

But with a Digital SLR, how would the slow shutter speed effect your picture? The shutter opens, and (i'm assuming) a light sensor sees the light entering the lense, and saves it to a flash card (or SD card, or whatever the feck you're using).

How would a slow shutter speed effect the light sensor? The light sensor isn't like a negative, in that the longer you expose it to light, the more thick and dramatic the light is (if you expose film for a split second, you get a really invisible and hazy feel to the picture, because the negative didn't capture enough light for it to be heavily viewable).

With a light sensor, unless it automatically added opacity values it assumes to the light comming in (which, if that's how the slow shutters speed works, is complete bullshit, as it's just "faking" the effect, much like your girlfriend "fakes" an orgasm), you'd just end up with a big brown blurb.

Maybe Xcellerate can enlighten us.

EDIT: And yeah, that's exactly my camera Love the bastard!

 

[secret friend]

you make an interesting analysis of the situation. maybe it just fakes it using software. who knows...

 

[sinkoman]

you make an interesting analysis of the situation. maybe it just fakes it using software. who knows...

Yeah, just found out that my explanation is precisely how DSLRs work. There's a light sensor at the back of the lens (not the camera body mind you, but the LENS ITSELF is the sensor ).

If it is, as you say, a software fake, then that's rather sad.

Analogue ftw!