Some cameras now offer electronic shutters which start and stop the exposure digitally rather than with a mechanical shutter. These are silent and can offer very high shutter speeds, though most use a ‘scanning’ process which makes them unsuitable for action photography because while the exposure time for any particular strip of the sensor is very short, the length of time taken to scan the full sensor area creates distortion and ‘rolling shutter’ effects with fast-moving subjects.
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