Originally Posted by
Dan Fromm
Jac, to add to Carsten's suggestion, if you want to make a guillotine shutter that gives short exposures, make one with a narrow slit. This idea stolen from Graflex curtain shutters.
Also from S.F.O.M. and Omera aerial cameras. These beasties have a sort of rotating venetian blind shutter (not what you want). What's interesting about them is that these cameras change shutter speed by changing the entire blind assembly. Fast shutters have more slats, narrower slits, than slow ones.
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