shutter
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You might have recognised it from its use in Arrival, Shutter Island, The Last of Us, Stranger Than Fiction, The Handmaid's Tale, The Innocents... and, perhaps most importantly, an episode of EastEnders.
From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026
To coincide with the anniversary year, Normski's book of photographs and anecdotes "Normski: Man with the Golden Shutter" will be published in collaboration with Britain's Museum of Youth Culture on Sept. 18.
From Reuters • Aug. 23, 2023
Micro Shutter Array: A grid of 248,000 small doors can open or close to measure spectra—light spread into its constituent wavelengths—from up to 100 points in a single frame.
From Scientific American • Dec. 1, 2022
Shutter speeds are often too slow, so subjects appear blurry and smoothed over from noise reduction, which isn’t a good look.
From The Verge • Apr. 23, 2022
Shutter 1 is held by the catch 2 from dropping to the right by its own gravity.
From Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by Miller, Kempster
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