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Expand Up @@ -34,11 +34,11 @@ shutter`_ to capture images. When the camera needs to capture a frame, it reads
out pixels from the sensor a row at a time rather than capturing all pixel
values at once.

In fact, DSLRs also read out pixels a row at a time. The major difference is
that a DSLR will have a physical shutter that covers the sensor. Hence in a
DSLR the procedure for capturing an image is to open the shutter, letting the
sensor "view" the scene, close the shutter, then read out each line from the
sensor.
In fact, the "global shutter" on DSLRs typically also read out pixels a row at
a time. The major difference is that a DSLR will have a physical shutter that
covers the sensor. Hence in a DSLR the procedure for capturing an image is to
open the shutter, letting the sensor "view" the scene, close the shutter, then
read out each line from the sensor.

The notion of "capturing a frame" is thus a bit misleading as what we actually
mean is "reading each row from the sensor in turn and assembling them back into
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made to read lines (at the hardware level this is down to the size of registers
for holding things like line read-out times). If we imagine that the minimum
framerate of our hypothetical sensor is ½fps then the maximum exposure time
will be :math:`\frac{1\text{s}}{^1/_2} = 2{s}`.
will be :math:`\frac{1\text{s}}{^1/_2} = 2\text{s}`.

Hence, the :attr:`~PiCamera.exposure_speed` attribute, which reports the
exposure time of the last processed frame, and which is really a multiple of
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