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Observed arrival · 2026-09-13

ShutterDoc Checks Whether Your Film Camera Tells the Truth

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An iPhone app that measures the real shutter speeds of film cameras by filming the shutter and analyzing the light that passes through.

Landing page captured for the 2026-09-13 issue.

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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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