Rolling shutter is a method of image capture in which a still picture (in a still camera) or each frame of a video (in a video camera) is captured not by taking a . Rolling shutter and wagon-wheel effect on Canon EOS 6D.

This specific tutorial is from the DSLR Video Tips series presented by lynda. Rolling Shutter is the way that most DSLR are shooting video. The process is commonly referred to as a “rolling shutter” since exposures typically move as a wave from one side of the image to the other.

DSLR video has improved dramatically over the last few years, but rolling shutter is still an issue. We can think of the rolling shutter effect being some coordinate transformation from the ‘object space’ of the real-world object, to the ‘image .

Rather than waiting for an entire frame to complete readout, to further maximize frame rates, each individual row is typically . But CMOS sensors (equipped with “rolling shutters”) can exhibit skew, wobble, and partial exposure; CCD sensors are immune to those effects.