Shutter Speed #ZUSAMMEN (ZSMN)

1/4000 at f5.6 ISO 800 for bucket splash

1/40 f111 ISO 400 for motion blur

This picture of me was taken using 2 sec ISO 100 f13 in order to securely fasten a camera to a tripod to take a picture showing a ghost-like image.

• The 3 camera settings that comprise the Exposure Triangle are Aperture, Shutter Speed, and ISO.

  
  

  On the back monitor of our Canon DSLR cameras, the aperture setting is displayed with “F” followed by a number.

  
  

  Apertures (from smallest openings to largest openings) are typically numbers f/22, f/16, f/11, f/8, f/5.6, f/4, f/2.8.

  
  

  The shutter speed settings are shown on the top right on the back monitor.

  
  

  Expressed as fractions of a second, the shortest or highest shutter speed on our cameras are 1/8000 seconds and the longest or slowest shutter speed is 1/30 seconds. Examples of shutter speeds (in order) are 1/4000, 1/2000, 1/1000, 1/500, 1/250, 1/125, 1/60, 1/30, 1/15, ½, 1”.

  
  

  The third setting ISO controls the camera’s sensitivity to light.

  
  

  This setting goes from 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200 on our cameras.

  
  

  To center the meter on our cameras, we can either change the aperture, shutter speed, or the ISO.

• SPINNING IN THE CHAIR