Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Cameras, Lenses and Shooting gear => Topic started by: hubell on October 11, 2012, 03:13:29 pm
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Is there a way to program a D800 so that I can press a button and the D800 will shoot a high speed bracket of three exposures, one at the indicated exposure, one at 2 stops down and one at 2 stops over?
Thanks.
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there is a bracket mode. There is high fps (4fps) setting. and you can use the two together.
But if you mean faster than 4fps, no.
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Thanks, Ellis. 4 FPS is ok, but I wonder how you set that up so that you can press a button nad it happens. I don't want to have to go into a series of menu items to set it up each time I use it, and then reverse the changes.
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Don't know about the D800 but with the D700 the Depth of Field Preview button can be programmed to shoot the AEB sequence with one press. Small problem; however, in that the D800, like the D700, is limited to 1 stop spacing. In order to get the 2 stops you want you're going to need 5 shots.
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If you have a remote cord you can do it. I use a MC-36 cord and I'm sure it works with others. I program the bracket and set the release mode dial to continuous high speed. To shoot the bracket I slide the shutter-release button to the hold position. The camera will make all the exposures in the bracket in rapid succession and then stop. To shoot a new bracket take the shutter-release button out of the hold position and repeat.
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there is a knob on top of the camera - press it and dial at the same time for
bracketing gaps (front dial) 0,33 stops 0,67 stops or 1 stop ( no 2 stops sorry)
or
amount of exposures ( rear dial) 2 exposures -1, 0 or 0, +1 - No bracketing- 3 exposures -1, 0, +1 5 exp... 7 exp... 9 exp..
it is quickly done as soon you are familiar with it.. but -2, 0, +2 does not exist-
it will be 5 exposures