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.
“In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.”
Isaac Newton
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