Even though SLR cameras adopted digital image sensors as far back as the 1980s, other key components have remained defiantly mechanical. Mirrorless cameras removed the mirror and optical viewfinder ...

More importantly the shutters are complicated and expensive to make, and finicky sods to keep running smoothly, not to mention seriously restricting the possible top speed of the lens; and the need to ...

The Part 1 of this series about digital camera design has shown how to do the basic calculations that interrelate pixel size, focal length, focal ratio, and spot size, and demonstrated how these ...

The newly-developed focal plane shutter is more durable and quieter than with the previous camera, and allows the X-T4 to achieve up to 15 frames per second continuous shooting, with the lag between ...

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