Rolling Shutter is a type of distortion that affects cameras across the price spectrum. The more you know about it, the better you can deal with it Rolling shutter sensors are a lot easier to build ...

A rolling shutter on a camera exposes an image by scanning one section at a time instead of capturing a scene all at once. Mechanical focal plane shutters, at the fastest shutter speeds, will scan an ...

The image above was shot by Jason Mullins with his iPhone 4 on a flight from London to Guernsey. The weird black lines you can see are actually distorted, disconnected copies of the propeller blades, ...

Rolling shutter is an issue at all levels of camerawork. One solution to get rid of it though is to synchronise the light frequency to the camera, and one of the few lights that actually accepts a ...

The iPhone, like many cameras without proper mechanical shutter to separate video frames, captures movies with a weird, floppy jello-like appearance. This problem is called the rolling shutter and, ...

Alongside a slew of other unveilings this week, Canon has announced it’s created a CMOS sensor with a global shutter, a surprising development that could rid DSLRs of the dreaded “rolling shutter” ...

Sony has launched the world's first full-frame global shutter image sensor, which debuted in the Sony A9 III. However, lost in all the noise of the camera launch was a spec that went largely under the ...

Even though SLR cameras adopted digital image sensors as far back as the 1980s, other key components have remained defiantly mechanical. Mirrorless cameras removed the mirror and optical viewfinder ...

This guitarist was messing around with his nylon string guitar and decided to drop his iPhone inside it to record the strings from the other side. As he played, he noticed that the strings seemed to ...

Right off the bat, we’ll say that this video showing a laser beam stopping in mid-air is nothing but a camera trick. But it’s the trick that’s the hack, and you’ve got to admit that it looks really ...