Shutter speed?

1/800 or 1/2000 of a second....or I dont get your question ;-)
 
your camera could shoot as fast as 1/8000th of a secont to as long as 30 seconds.. even longer if you use a manual mode called Bulb..

anything under 1/50th of a second is slow imo.. but can be ok.. depending on the circumstances..


Shutter speeds really depend on how much light is making up the image your looking at.. so and average speed could be anything.. soz..


hth..
 
You generally want a shutter speed equal to 1/focal length, or some people say its advisable to have 1/(shutter speed * crop factor) to try and eliminate shake as much as possible.

A "fast" shutter speed depends upon what you are shooting and at what length.

A human running might need only 1/500 of a second to freeze the motion, whereas a Formula 1 car might need 1/8000 and it still not manage to freeze the action totally
 
Uneducated_Rick said:
You generally want a shutter speed equal to 1/focal length, or some people say its advisable to have 1/(FOCAL LENGTH * crop factor) to try and eliminate shake as much as possible.

A "fast" shutter speed depends upon what you are shooting and at what length.

A human running might need only 1/500 of a second to freeze the motion, whereas a Formula 1 car might need 1/8000 and it still not manage to freeze the action totally
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fixed.
 
Uneducated_Rick said:
You generally want a shutter speed equal to 1/focal length, or some people say its advisable to have 1/(shutter speed * crop factor) to try and eliminate shake as much as possible.

A "fast" shutter speed depends upon what you are shooting and at what length.

A human running might need only 1/500 of a second to freeze the motion, whereas a Formula 1 car might need 1/8000 and it still not manage to freeze the action totally
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That's mostly correct, though for precision it should say equal to or greater than 1/focal length. Even then it's just a rule of thumb and with good technique you can hand hold much slower than that.

On your D50:
1/4000th is your max shutter speed, on the top lcd and viewfinder it will say "4000". 30s is your longest, on the top lcd and viewfinder it will say 30". As with cartography double tick " means seconds.

In manual mode, one click over from 30" is bulb, in which the shutter will be open as long as you hold the release down for.

If you use an ML-L3 remote, you can put the camera in remote mode, and one click over from 30" is "---" which is a timed exposure mode. To use this, set the camera up with the remote mode (or remote + timer) press the button on the ML-L3 once to open the shutter than then again to close the shutter.

The maximum exposure is 30 minutes, so for anything between 30" and 30 minutes you either need to hold the camera shutter down (which will induce shake, so don't do that) or get a stopwatch and use the ML-L3. Unfortunately there's no wired release for the D50 so you can't use a release with a built in timer.

There are aftermarket products for long exposures, like the Zigview S2, but they are not cheap. They have a ton of other features though.
 
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