Not really. The 500cc bikes can travel up to 320 km/hr on the straight, and unless you happens to be a photographer with lots of experiences in shooting motorcycle racing - every weekends, every legs for a decade or more, chances of capturing super sharp pictures of such bikes using slower shutter speeds in panning mode are most likely to end up blurred and shaky. And shutter speeds of 1/400 or 1/500 sec. can hardly "freeze" the wheels of such bikes, either. Thus, understanding shutter speeds is important for creating better pictures but there is more to it than that. Canon EOS cameras offer a full range of shutter speeds, with top models like the EOS-1N, EOS 5 and the new EOS-3 featuring a top shutter speed of 1/8000 sec. When shooting at these speeds, your EOS cameras can photograph subjects that the human eye can't see. Some examples of such photographic subjects are; a speeding bullet or a water droplet that were "frozen" in mid-air, an a speeding arrow striking its bull's eye board or a water-filled balloon that exploded upon impact by a dart or something sharp which enables the still balloon-shaped water splashes being recorded on film. Of course, these photographic examples need constant practise and luck in addition to having the camera, the right lenses and accessories like custom-built, high-speed strobe units before you can capture them successfully but they are proof of what shutter speeds are capable of achieving what the naked eye can't see. At the opposite end of the spectrum are very slow shutter speeds, including a bulb (B) setting that enables extremely long time exposures. On most EOS cameras except for the earlier series of EOS 700, 750, 850 and EF-M models, the "B" setting appears as "bulb" in the LCD panels of the cameras when this feature is selected. The bulb setting enables new ways of "seeing" other subjects which are not possible with the naked eye like the trailing blurs of lights from speeding vehicles at night, a time exposure of a starry sky or fireworks, etc. These type of photography subjects are known as timed or long exposure photography. EOS camera users are no strangers to their cameras' Shutter-priority AE mode since this is the perfect way of choosing the right shutter speed manually for the given subjects while leaving the choice of selecting the corresponding aperture values in accordance to shutter speed selected automatically to the camera. << Back to Main . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 5 . 6 . 7 . 8 . 9 . 10 . 11 . 12 .