Depends on the type of shutter - leaf shutters work different than normal focal-plane shutters, and Contax shutters work differently still, and, and, and...
Dilated?
Dilated?
My mind has abandoned me... need a word:
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Dilated is soooo close, but seems like it's a more technical word. My mind keeps sticking "oscillate" in there, which obviously has nothing to do with it, but makes me think there must be an "sc" in it maybe. Bleh. Normally I credit heavy drinking with being conducive to empowering writing, but sometimes I think it just kills brain cells which die like little pages burning out of a dictionary.
To the specifics of your types of shutters, I have no idea. I know zip about cameras. But here's a picture of what I'm talking about. What would you call it when THIS thing opened or closed?
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To the specifics of your types of shutters, I have no idea. I know zip about cameras. But here's a picture of what I'm talking about. What would you call it when THIS thing opened or closed?
That's a leaf shutter, FWIW. And as far as I can tell, even consulting my dusty collection of antiquarian photography handbooks, there's no special $5 word for when that thing fires, trips, actuates, activates, and/or opens and closes.John Daulton said:
Not that it helps, but flashbulbs "detonate".
What about "snapped open" and "snapped shut"?
FWIW, I prefer shuttered to dilated, though. Shuttered sounds mechanical. Dilated sounds organic. Totally different mental images.
Hope that helps!
Rue
FWIW, I prefer shuttered to dilated, though. Shuttered sounds mechanical. Dilated sounds organic. Totally different mental images.
Hope that helps!
Rue
You could always just invent a term, if you wanted. Or misuse an existing one, for fun.
"She watched impatiently as the aperture to dock twenty..."
inverted
cycled
dilated and contracted
de-fluxed
twinked
somehow failed to explode in a ball of plasma, despite being pneumatic and built by the lowest bidder
phase-shifted
re-ordered its nanomolecular structure to permit egress
broke the generally accepted understanding of causality, again
opened
"She watched impatiently as the aperture to dock twenty..."
inverted
cycled
dilated and contracted
de-fluxed
twinked
somehow failed to explode in a ball of plasma, despite being pneumatic and built by the lowest bidder
phase-shifted
re-ordered its nanomolecular structure to permit egress
broke the generally accepted understanding of causality, again
opened
Quinn Richardson said:
convaginatedBeat me to it. "Snap" seems to capture the sound of a shutter better than does "click". "Snapped open" conveys both the sound and physical appearance of the shutter opening and closing.ruecole said:What about "snapped open" and "snapped shut"?
FWIW, I prefer shuttered to dilated, though. Shuttered sounds mechanical. Dilated sounds organic. Totally different mental images.
Hope that helps!
Rue
Phase-shifted is a cool image.George Berger said:You could always just invent a term, if you wanted. Or misuse an existing one, for fun.
"She watched impatiently as the aperture to dock twenty..."
inverted
cycled
dilated and contracted
de-fluxed
twinked
somehow failed to explode in a ball of plasma, despite being pneumatic and built by the lowest bidder
phase-shifted
re-ordered its nanomolecular structure to permit egress
broke the generally accepted understanding of causality, again
opened
LOL, this one: somehow failed to explode in a ball of plasma, despite being pneumatic and built by the lowest bidderGeorge Berger said:You could always just invent a term, if you wanted. Or misuse an existing one, for fun.
"She watched impatiently as the aperture to dock twenty..."
inverted
cycled
dilated and contracted
de-fluxed
twinked
somehow failed to explode in a ball of plasma, despite being pneumatic and built by the lowest bidder
phase-shifted
re-ordered its nanomolecular structure to permit egress
broke the generally accepted understanding of causality, again
opened
I laughed. For a while. Mentally, I think I'm only really three or four years old, so the word sphincter pretty much gets me every time.Quinn Richardson said:
Yeah it'd be loud, grinding plates, resonant heavy metal sounds (I see the music jokes coming), hydraulics hissing ... stuff like that.vrabinec said:
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