shutter speed

Hey everyone! Not being a native English speaker, I often wonder where the term shutter speed comes from. In German, we say "Belichtungszeit" which would translate to exposure time - which is rather logical and found in the EXIF data. But where does the rather misleading "shutter speed" come...

I am trying to do a study with "playing with light" I am having trouble with the shutter speed (i am a n00b) But i seem to be getting it right. ISO ~100 shutter 5 sec-10sec any tips for me here? here is my best so far, granted I have only started to explore this today Shooting Sony A6300

This coming Sunday I'm going to be going out with some friends to photograph a site that has literally thousands of daffodils then will be going to a site that has the same amount of Trilliums blooming here in Ontario Canada. I want to get the best shots possible with my Fujifilm Finepix S5200...

I got bored the other day so I made a little video of some Nikon shutters. Love that D4s machine gun speed! hah. Cheers!

I posted a few days ago about images from a recent shoot being overexposed and when I looked at the EXIF data I realized that my shutter speed was set to 1/125 for all of my photos despite my using various apertures throughout the shoot. The shoot began in early evening (bright) sun and ended...

Hey guys, So I bought a Canon A1 the other day with a 50mm lense and shot my first few rolls of film at a party and in the city at night. What I find strange my light meter and the exposures that its giving me. So I shot at ISO400 at the party which was indoors with decent lighting, and it...

Okay guys I need help. Usually i can find the answers to stuff like this on elgooG but not this time. I was out taking some astro photos this weekend and couldn't get anything with a set shutter speed. Settings were 18mm/f3.5 iso 3200-6400, 5-25" I wasn't getting any light (black foreground...