Camera shutter speed slower than 1/2sec? like 5sec or 10?

[Chris Inhale]

Hi as far as I can see there is only one box for the camera shutter speed and that has the 1/ prefix - so any falue you put in there will be faster that 1 second, like 125 = 1/125th second - I have tried putting 5" in there or even 5' but both dont work, you can only brighten the images with the camera then by increasing the ISO and lowering the F-number - or i suppose you could increase the light brightness - but I was just wondering if it was possible? - for some really cool blurring affects on moving objects etc.

Thanks

Gareth

[dalomar_cg]

Re: Camera shutter speed slower than 1/2sec? like 5sec or 10?

Good observation about the shutter speed value. In order to get shutter speeds that are longer then a second you will have to putt fractions or numbers smaller then one into that value. So for a shutter speed of 2 seconds you will have to put .5 for the value...for 4 seconds .25 and so on and so forth.

[Chris Inhale]

Re: Camera shutter speed slower than 1/2sec? like 5sec or 10?

HAHAHA - damn you should see me kicking myself now ! - it sounds so simple that im still trying to figure out why I didnt think of trying that - Thanks again for your help

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