Shutter

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Science and technology

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

In photography, a shutter is a device that allows light to pass for a determined period, exposing photographic film or a photosensitive digital sensor to light in order to capture a permanent image of a scene.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Shutter (photography)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Rama, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.