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If two global shutter cameras take a scene at the same time, they would have the same image. If they don't, then they wouldn't.

Global shutter cameras are also not new. CCD sensors are global shutter and we used to use CCD sensors for cameras decades ago until we switched over to CMOS for most applications due to their larger size and better dynamic range. I have a global shutter HVX200 from 2005 in my closet.

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So the whole point of what I was saying is that special relativity proves that whether two spatially separated events occur at the same time is not absolute and it depends on the observer’s reference frame. My question has nothing to do with engineering and wasn’t intended practically.

The point was to imagine light from some event, reaching two parts of the sensor at the same time, being exposed at the same time (ie the global shutter), and yet asking if those two parts of the sensor could show conflicting versions of that same event, since they are nonetheless separated by space.

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