But not exactly a 'modern' phenomenon. Pre-digital SLR's also had an analog version of the curtain shutter, the focal plane shutter. Some photographers used this to nice effect. Jacques Henri Lartigue was one of the earliest.
“You meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it.”
~ Carl Jung
And then the flying monkeys attacked. My only defense was this tiny ad:
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