Camera shutter speed is an essential adjustment in photography – along with the aperture, the shutter moderates the amount of light entering the camera. Older cameras (and some newer ones ...
The high-speed electronic flash is many times brighter ... who also devised a photo-cell trip that would automatically operate the camera shutter, and with it the flash, at the instant the bird ...
It’s been around almost as long as photography itself ... They simply lacked film that was fast enough to give them a fast shutter speed. Racehorses and early motorcar races were enticing ...