GH2 Shutter speed on these DSLR's

-Tom-

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Looking into the 180 rule, when talking about "real" film cameras, the entire shutter speed debate makes all the sense. But what about these DSLR'sm how does it actually work?

I suppose it has nothing to do with the shutter curtain actually opening and closing every half second?
 
This article's detailed analysis of the 180-degree shutter found on vintage film cameras shows why it's an effect that digital cameras are incapable of reproducing. The leading and trailing edges of the rotating mechanical shutter produce a smoothing effect that reduces the temporal aliasing inherent in sampling motion at low frame rates. Unfortunately, the electronic shutters used in digital video cameras work in a completely different manner that produces noticeable temporal aliasing along with rolling shutter effects. As a result, it's naive to apply the "180-degree rule" to digital cameras in the hope that it will duplicate the look of a motion picture film camera. In reality, there is no such rule that can be applied in a blanket manner to digital cameras - you have to evaluate the motion blur produced by the combination of frame rate and shutter speed on each camera to determine what looks best in your opinion in each case.
 
So far from my experience, shooting 1/50 on GH2 made the footage blurry and filmy enough for me...honestly didn't experiment much further...

But I was asking the technical standpoint...how does it work? Shutter curtain gets open and then the camera tilts the shutter on and off at the speed set, or is it actual physical movement involved?
 
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