February 15, 2017 at 11:00 am

When You Blink Faster Than Your Camera’s Shutter

by twistedsifter

when you blink faster than the camera shutter cover When You Blink Faster Than Your Cameras Shutter

Photograph by Luke Mandle

 

In this trippy photograph we see what happens when you blink faster than the shutter on your camera. The cause of this optical illusion is due to the camera using a “rolling shutter” in which:
 

A still picture is captured not by taking a snapshot of the entire scene at single instant in time but rather by scanning across the scene rapidly, either vertically or horizontally. In other words, not all parts of the image of the scene are recorded at exactly the same instant. [source]

 

[Luke Mandle via Boing Boing via reddit]

 

when you blink faster than the camera shutter When You Blink Faster Than Your Cameras Shutter

Photograph by Luke Mandle