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I consider myself fairly well versed in the the use and operation of my trusty 7D, but I was fascinated by this video by the Slo-Mo Guys of how the shutter on a DSLR works at high speed:

Whilst I understood the idea of a rolling shutter with digital sensors at the electronics level, it’s fascinating to see it at the mechanical level as your camera tries to take a shot at 1/8000^th of a second.

Whilst you’re at it, it’s worth going through some of the back catalog of the Slo-Mo guys. Their videos are a bit hit and miss – sometimes they just gloss over what I’d consider the interesting detail of whatever they’re capturing, but there’s a few gems in there such as the tuning fork in water, shooting guns under water, and exploding paints.