I have found a rather old and rather extreme example - it is by Jacques-Henri Lartigue and it is dated 1912! Here it is:
www.mynetcologne.de/~nc-kellersv2/1069.jpg Amazing, isn't it? Sven -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht----- Von: keller.schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 19. Februar 2004 15:59 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: AF360FGZ high speed sync The effect is not image blur but rather a distortion of the shapes. Most visible on old focal plane shutters with a slow travelling speed (and the resulting low flash sync speed) but a 'narrow slot' causing a short exposure (a high shutter 'speed'). A bicycle going through the image will have egg-shaped wheels. I will try to find an example and post a link. Sven Zitat von Nenad Djurdjevic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Sven wrote: > "I have always been amazed by the fact that a focal plane shutter this way > does > not capture 'a moment in time' but rather a certain duration in one > image..." > > If that's the way a shutter works at higher than sync speeds (ie. as a > moving slot) then how is it that a moving object is not smeared/blurred > across the frame? > ...
