Exposes the sensor for a fixed length of time. The shutter ‘speed’ is the length of time the shutter remains open and is usually expressed in fractions of a second, although in poor light and night photography, exposures may run [...]
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Shutter built into the lens of a compact camera. They’re simpler and cheaper than focal plane shutters. Focal plane shutters are only needed on cameras with interchangeable lenses (it would be very expensive to incorporate a leaf shutter in every [...]