Shutter life: Does anyone know the shutter life of the camera in an iPad Pro? I would like to use my iPad for a longish (intermittent over a 4 to 6 week period) time lapse project, but...

Cheese

Does anyone know the shutter life of the camera in an iPad Pro?

I would like to use my iPad for a longish (intermittent over a 4 to 6 week period) time lapse project, but don’t want to ruin the iPad in the process.

Thanks.

BebuLamar

Cheese wrote:

Does anyone know the shutter life of the camera in an iPad Pro?

I would like to use my iPad for a longish (intermittent over a 4 to 6 week period) time lapse project, but don’t want to ruin the iPad in the process.

Thanks.

I don't think the IPad has a shutter.

nervous2 Loc: Provo, Utah

BebuLamar wrote:

I don't think the IPad has a shutter.

That would be my inexpert guess as well.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Good name for a photography magazine.

Cheese

BebuLamar wrote:

I don't think the IPad has a shutter.

If there is no shutter, how does the camera measure the exposure time shown in the EXIF information?

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Leitz Loc: Solms

Cheese wrote:

If there is no shutter, how does the camera measure the exposure time shown in the EXIF information?

Where does it show the shutter speed?

Cheese

See the highlighted line: Exposure time 1/60

Peterfiore Loc: Where DR goes south

I would think it has an Electronic shutter.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Cheese wrote:

If there is no shutter, how does the camera measure the exposure time shown in the EXIF information?

It's all electronic.

Red6

Cheese wrote:

Does anyone know the shutter life of the camera in an iPad Pro?

I would like to use my iPad for a longish (intermittent over a 4 to 6 week period) time lapse project, but don’t want to ruin the iPad in the process.

Thanks.

It is an electronic "rolling shutter". There are no moving parts. The ipad, iphone and most other cameras in cell phones have them.

A quick google search yields a lot of info. Here is one of the sites;

https://lifeinlofi.com/2015/05/06/how-does-your-iphone-cmos-shutter-work/

Leitz Loc: Solms

Cheese wrote:

See the highlighted line: Exposure time 1/60

Thank you. The "highlight" dimmed it out on this monitor.

BebuLamar

Cheese wrote:

If there is no shutter, how does the camera measure the exposure time shown in the EXIF information?

It's the exposure time and not shutter. The shutter if there is would cover the sensor but there is no such thing on the Ipad. The sensor can be reset and start capture then readout after the exposure time elapse. There is no shutter. They call it electronic shutter but the electronic shutter is no shutter (don't confuse with the electronically controlled shutter though).

cedymock Loc: Irmo, South Carolina

Cheese wrote:

Does anyone know the shutter life of the camera in an iPad Pro?

I would like to use my iPad for a longish (intermittent over a 4 to 6 week period) time lapse project, but don’t want to ruin the iPad in the process.

Thanks.

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Longshadow wrote:

Good name for a photography magazine.

Day late and a dollar short :-(

gwilliams6

It has an electronic shutter, so there is no shutter wear like in a mechanical shutter. Relax, cheers