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Shutter Speed Examples and Settings Guide

This document provides information about shutter speed settings for cameras. It lists typical shutter speeds used for different types of photos from night photos requiring 30 second exposures to freezing fast motion at 1/1000-1/4000 second. It also includes a table showing how aperture settings affect relative light levels and example shutter speeds. Finally, it describes the different exposure modes for cameras including auto, program, aperture priority, shutter priority, manual, and bulb.

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Shutter Speed Examples and Settings Guide

This document provides information about shutter speed settings for cameras. It lists typical shutter speeds used for different types of photos from night photos requiring 30 second exposures to freezing fast motion at 1/1000-1/4000 second. It also includes a table showing how aperture settings affect relative light levels and example shutter speeds. Finally, it describes the different exposure modes for cameras including auto, program, aperture priority, shutter priority, manual, and bulb.

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Shutter Speed

Typical Examples

1 - 30+ seconds

Specialty night and low-light photos on a tripod

2 - 1/2 second

To add a silky look to flowing water


Landscape photos on a tripod for enhanced depth of field

1/2 to 1/30 second

To add motion blur to the background of a moving subject


Carefully taken hand-held photos with stabilization

1/50 - 1/100 second

Typical hand-held photos without substantial zoom

1/250 - 1/500 second

To freeze everyday sports/action subject movement


Hand-held photos with substantial zoom (telephoto lens)

1/1000 - 1/4000 second

To freeze extremely fast, up-close subject motion

Aperture Setting

Relative Light

Example Shutter Speed

f/22

1X

16 seconds

f/16

2X

8 seconds

f/11

4X

4 seconds

f/8.0

8X

2 seconds

f/5.6

16X

1 second

f/4.0

32X

1/2 second

f/2.8

64X

1/4 second

f/2.0

128X

1/8 second

f/1.4

256X

1/15 second

Exposure Mode
Auto (

How It Works
Camera automatically selects all exposure settings.

Camera automatically selects aperture & shutter speed; you can choose a corresponding ISO speed
Program (P)
& exposure compensation. With some cameras, P can also act as a hybrid of the Av & Tv modes.
Aperture Priority (Av
You specify the aperture & ISO; the camera's metering determines the corresponding shutter speed.
or A)
Shutter Priority (Tv
You specify the shutter speed & ISO; the camera's metering determines the corresponding aperture.
or S)
Manual (M)

You specify the aperture, ISO and shutter speed regardless of whether these values lead to a
correct exposure.
Useful for exposures longer than 30 seconds. You specify the aperture and ISO; the shutter speed is
determined by a remote release switch, or by the duration until you press the shutter button a

Bulb (B)

second time.

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