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The Shutter: Mechanism that controls the duration of the exposure of film.

Shutter speed is the time the shutter stays open. If you're doing point-and-shoot photography, I doubt you'll ever use less then 1/90 of a second.

FPS, or Frames Per Second: the capture ability of your camera in a continuous shooting mode. The higher the FPS, the more pictures per second or the smoother the video. Note: the human eye sees at about 60fps.

What you want is better reflexes. FPS is only good if you're holding down the shutter button, taking one picture after another. It may also help if you have a camera with built in storage or a storage card, rather then a disk-reader.