A test to assess a reader's knowledge of shutter speed based on Bryan Peterson's book "Understanding Exposure".
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It's only used when using flash
It's used when your lens doesn't have the aperture needed to match the shutter speed you desire.
It's for exposures over 30 seconds long, but requires a "bulb" cable.
It's a left-over from film days that's no longer really necessary with digital.
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There was nothing in the background to show the pan's blur
It wasn't moving fast enough
It was both rotating and moving horizontaly
It was moving in an arc
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A colorful blur of the dashboard of your car, the car in front of you, the street, and the trees, houses, and other cars around you.
A colorful blur of the car in front of you, the street, and the trees, houses, and other cars, but the dashboard of your car would be sharp.
A colorful blur of the street, trees, houses and other cars, but both your dashboard and the car in front of you would remain sharp.
Anything that's moving faster than you would be blurred.
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There's too much light
You need a faster lens
You need a lower ISO, if possible
You need a higher ISO, if possible
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Never
When you want to show the motion of a moving subject or the camera
In low light, when you are not using a tripod
Shutter speed and aperture are independent, they don't effect one another.
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