Nikon D3 - What Happens when The Shutter is Clicked - Slow Motion Movie

how nikon camera electronic shutters work - slow motion movie of the nikon electronic shutter release process I have borrowed this from Jeffrey Friedl’s Blog showing the sequence of shutter movements when a photographer clicks the Camera Shutter on a Nikon D3 .

Marianne Oelund took a series of images of the shutter leaves & these 70 images were then composed frame by frame on a time scale.

This is a great photo tutorial for anyone trying to understand how the shutter works on a Nikon D3 .

In fact, this is how most of the electronic shutters work on Nikons . To see the actual sequence of events, you need to slide the mouse over the image from left to right (that is the time axis).

The sequence of images were taken by one Nikon D3 camera with a 60mm micro lens focused on another Nikon D3 under Nikon Speedlight SB-800 .

Quoting the author:

In looking at the actual shutter (between the mirror and the sensor), it seems that it takes about 3 milliseconds to drop the 26 or so millimeters it needs to expose the sensor. That works out to an average speed of about 8.7 meters/second, or just over 19mph. That’s a lot of speed to accelerate to and from so quickly. Wow. Marianne has more timing analysis in her dpreview thread.

This image sequence is a great Nikon Camera tutorial for anyone trying to visualize what happens, the sequence of events that follow a shutter release on a Nikon D3 .

Thanks to Jeffrey Friedl & Marianne Oelund for putting this together.