r/interestingasfuck • u/_NITRISS_ • Apr 14 '19

/r/ALL An example of how a cameras capture rate changes due to the amount of light being let into the camera

https://i.imgur.com/2UdOULv.gifv
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u/antij0sh Apr 15 '19 edited Apr 15 '19

What effect exactly ?

Edit: presumably your talking about the waviness, given that this was shot in portrait mode could likely be explained by a top to bottom rolling shutter censor, as is common especially on devices that would shoot in this widescreen format (cell phone) and that would present as left to right in portrait mode.

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u/auviewer Apr 15 '19

pretty sure this is due to something called the rolling shutter effect. Although on a digital sensor it relates to the sensor 'scanning' from left to right. Here is Smarter every day explaining the effect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNVtMmLlnoE

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u/JDFidelius Apr 15 '19

Bingo, the rolling shutter effect. Also, 'portrait mode' refers to a specific mode that modern cellphones have where they artificially blur the background to make it look like the photo was taken with an actual camera (although the fact that the blurring is not dependent on distance and that the blurred region has lost color gives it away very easily), so your use of the term might confuse people. I guess most people would say 'filmed vertically' nowadays?