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Welcome in to the Master Photography Round Two, part of the Master Photography Podcast Network.

You're joined by thousands of photographers listening to the show who are on the same journey to master their photography.

I'm Jeff Harmon, the host for this episode.

And in this episode, I'm gonna cover something

that's, I think it should be really important

to a lot of photographers, but for some strange reason,

seems completely unimportant to many camera manufacturers.

So I want to talk about shutter count in this episode.

Specifically, let's define what shutter count is. It's it's

better named shutter actuation count which is a kind of a geeky or nerdy way to be able to talk about it, but what we're talking about is the event that takes place every time you press down that shutter button, you're actuating the shutter.

And it's a good word for it because you are initiating a mechanical process most of the time and and there's a mechanical shutter inside

your camera even mirrorless cameras at all the cameras have and mechanical shutter inside of it and

it so that the actuation is a good word for it because it's the sequence of events that is amazing to me about that how it works.

It is crazy to me that it works at all.

But let's go through kind of what the general process is

that we're talking about here when you press the shutter button

and what we're talking about.

So a shutter actuation is you press the shutter button, right?

And that signals to the camera that trips the shutter on the camera to take a photo.

We all, I mean, we do this all the time, right?

On a mirror camera, a DSLR, the first step when you press that shutter button is to

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