shutter speed
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of shutter speed
First recorded in 1885–90
Example Sentences
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With a slow shutter speed to capture the surrounding light, everything came together perfectly on the tenth night as the owl made its move.
From BBC • Feb. 4, 2025
At the next drugstore, Faryar came out with Kodak film in yellow boxes, showed Diltz the instructions on the back, how to set the shutter speed.
From New York Times • Nov. 14, 2023
I bought an app for the phone for photographing in the unprocessed image Raw mode but more importantly for letting me control the shutter speed.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2022
Note the shutter speed on the easy-to-read top display.
From The Verge • Sep. 9, 2022
Like a pilot dipping the plane into a tailspin to practice pulling back out, she would deliberately take photos out of focus, with the wrong shutter speed or the wrong ISO, to see what happened.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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