shutter-priority

[ shuht-er-prahy-or-i-tee, -awr- ]

/ ˈʃʌt ər praɪˌɒr ɪ ti, -ˌɔr- /

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adjective Photography.

of or relating to a semiautomatic exposure system in which the photographer presets the shutter speed and the camera selects the aperture.

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Also shut·ter-pre·ferred

[shuht-er-pri-furd]. /ˈʃʌt ər prɪˌfɜrd/.

Compare aperture-priority.

Origin of shutter-priority

First recorded in 1970–75

How to use shutter-priority in a sentence

In fact, in a recent study of their users internationally, it was the lowest priority for most.
Grindr’s Trans Dating Problem|David Levesley|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Current and former intelligence officials have said North Korea has long been a priority target for American spies.
Was Sony Hit With a Second Hack?|Shane Harris|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
It's not necessarily a deal-breaker, but it is kind of a top priority.
My Week on Jewish Tinder|Emily Shire|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST
If we want that to change, then all of us have to encourage our legislators to make funding community policing a priority.
How to Solve the Policing Crisis|Keli Goff|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST

“The tribe is really made of people who put travel as a priority in their entire lifestyle,” says Evita.
‘We Out Here’: Inside the New Black Travel Movement|Charlise Ferguson|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
A very thin vacuum shutter forms a better interrupter of sound waves than a brick wall two or three feet in thickness.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building|George Laing Miller
She partly opened the wooden shutter again and pointed to an upper story of the opposite building.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
As Donovan described and figured this insect many years before Dr. Leach, his name has the right of priority.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2]|Phillip Parker King
And once Mother Oriole found, caught in the shutter, little threads of Hepzebiah's hair.
Seven O'Clock Stories|Robert Gordon Anderson
The umpire's first decision was usually his last; they broke him in two with a bat, and his friends toted him home on a shutter.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Complete|Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

British Dictionary definitions for shutter-priority

shutter priority

noun

photog an automatic exposure system in which the photographer selects the shutter speed and the camera then automatically sets the correct apertureCompare aperture priority

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