@northy - so i can't get the camera to take multiple shots if it's set to delay mode. i know this is a stupid question, so pardon me, but why did the exp numbers change so much in the bottom row? is it the way the light was hitting the coin? the exposure is set at 1/20 but obviously it changed as i was shooting the coin.
Love all the motion going on here. I would suspect it was the position of the coin and the amount of light reflecting off of it, since the background didn't change, and most likely the lighting didn't change. I agree with Brendan, suspect center weighted or spot metering, on the coin, thereby causing the varying shades of grey on the background.
Cool way of showing how differently the camera was seeing the same situation. Definitely shows lots of motion. I have no idea how to answer your question!
very cool exercise... and i agree with what Brendan said... i would never deliberately set out to catch motion blur in aperture priority mode, btw... for the simple reason that the camera is going to decide the shutter speed for you, and for deliberate motion blur, i want to be in control... i would almost always pick manual mode, unless i was shooting candid subjects in the street in changing light, in which case i would likely pick shutter priority, and if the light was pretty low, possibly put iso on auto...
I have no clue as to any of the above math and what it means! LOL But I do like the chart and if I ever decide to do this, I'll remember to come here and see what the settings did!
The camera changed the shutter speed to expose the image correctly using the metering setting to determine it.
Now depending on how the light was on the coin and the light on the background was the camera will adjust.
Do you know what meter setting it was at? I suspect it was center weight as the expose on the images is very different across them.
i checked my camera and it's on 'partial' metering. thanks, guys!