Observed arrival · 2026-09-13
ShutterDoc Checks Whether Your Film Camera Tells the Truth
An iPhone app that measures the real shutter speeds of film cameras by filming the shutter and analyzing the light that passes through.
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The proposed workflow uses iPhone video at 240 frames per second, then measures the light passing through a camera shutter to report its actual duration. It covers both focal-plane shutters, common in SLRs and rangefinders, and leaf shutters built into lenses. A separate capping test is identified as beta; it evaluates uneven exposure across the frame rather than returning a shutter-speed number. The site states that recordings remain on the phone.
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