Nowadays, more digital point and shoot cameras are now equipped with manual functions. These manual functions allow you to be more flexible and creative in your approach to photography, enabling you to change the shutter speed, aperture and ISO. However, what exactly do these settings mean? And how does changing one of these settings affect the others? Here is a simple, no fuss look at shutter speed, aperture and ISO, and how the three work together to achieve the correct exposure.
Shutter Speed
Shutter speed is probably the easiest setting to understand. It simply measures how long the camera’s shutter is open for. A fast shutter speed of 1/1000 second is also known as a short exposure time and allows you to ‘freeze’ moving objects.
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