Quick pic of a shutter curtain in a 35mm camera....... When you snap the shutter, the lens aperture opens and the shutter curtain slides open to expose the film and then is slides closed. When using the wrong flash synch mode you will sometimes see an image much like the one above, half exposed/ half unexposed..... because the shutter curtain didn't open in synch with the flash settings.....

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