Re: mechanical shutters and digital cameras

[Steve Jolly]

You can build a higher quality CCD if you don't have to worry about 
light hitting it at the same time as you're trying to read out the picture.

S
Nenad Djurdjevic wrote:
Peter Jonkman wrote:

Maybe this helps, it is not that extensive:
http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/digital-camera22.htm
Thanks Peter.  At least I know that point & shoot digicams have electronic
shutters that reset electronically but I still don't understand why DSLRs
have mechanical shutters.
Nenad