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Encyclopedia > Shutter

A shutter is a movable cover or screen that alternately prevents and permits the passage of some desirable (or undesirable) element:

  • Window shutter, a door for covering a window. Most are decorative, although some are functional as hurricane shutters
  • Shutter (photography), a photographic device that administers the exposure by limiting the time over which light is admitted
  • a shutter that prevents or allows air to pass through the pipes in a pipe organ, producing the desired sounds
  • Shutter (Thai film), a 2004 horror film from Thailand
  • Shutter (US film), a 2004 film from the United States
  • Shutter (Short film), a 2001 short film by Jannu Alain Goldschmidt
  • Shutters On The Beach, a hotel in Santa Monica, California.

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Shutter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (190 words)
A shutter is a movable cover or screen that alternately prevents and permits the passage of some desirable (or undesirable) element:
Shutter (photography), a photographic device that administers the exposure by limiting the time over which light is admitted
Shutters On The Beach, a hotel in Santa Monica, California.
Shutter (photography) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (648 words)
In photography, a shutter is a device that allows light to pass for a determined period of time, for the purpose of exposing photographic film or a light-sensitive electronic sensor to the right amount of light to create a permanent image of a view.
Central shutters usually have a diaphragm-like mechanism which progressively dilate to a circular opening the size of the lens, then stay open as long as is required, and finally close.
Cinematography uses a rotary disc shutter in movie cameras, a continuously spinning disc which conceals the image with a reflex mirror during the intermittent motion between frame exposure.
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