Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Cameras, Lenses and Shooting gear => Topic started by: Ed Blagden on July 14, 2009, 08:06:57 am
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Apologies if this has already been asked, and yes I did look at the manual, but is it possible to make multiple exposures on a Canon 5D? John R has posted some good images on the critique forum using this technique using his Pentax digital, and I would like to experiment with this technique too. Can anyone here help?
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Apologies if this has already been asked, and yes I did look at the manual, but is it possible to make multiple exposures on a Canon 5D? John R has posted some good images on the critique forum using this technique using his Pentax digital, and I would like to experiment with this technique too. Can anyone here help?
I don't think that it's possible.
I googled and found another discussion ( http://photo.net/canon-eos-digital-camera-forum/00ThFH (http://photo.net/canon-eos-digital-camera-forum/00ThFH) ), but it seems to confirm that the Canon 5D Mark II cannot do double-exposures.
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Is there a reason why you don't want to combine the photographs on your computer? That would achieve the same result as a double exposure, but with much more control over the result.
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Apologies if this has already been asked, and yes I did look at the manual, but is it possible to make multiple exposures on a Canon 5D? John R has posted some good images on the critique forum using this technique using his Pentax digital, and I would like to experiment with this technique too. Can anyone here help?
The only time I got a DSLR to make a double exposure was shooting in low light with a slow shutter speed and the AF on. The AF wasn't able to lock on well and hence I got a double exposure.
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The only time I got a DSLR to make a double exposure was shooting in low light with a slow shutter speed and the AF on. The AF wasn't able to lock on well and hence I got a double exposure.
That's a neat image! The moral is: Never throw away accidental rejects.
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That's the problem with digital - you can't do mult exposures, but have to resort to digital manipulation. I won't do that. I'm fine with levels\curves adjustments, and maybe unsharp-mask but bringing two shots together to make one is more like graphic design than photography. Don't mean to offend anyone, just my opinion. Luckily, I still have like 10 rolls of slide film so that I can shoot some mults\abstracts in the next couple of months.
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That's the problem with digital - you can't do mult exposures, but have to resort to digital manipulation. I won't do that. I'm fine with levels\curves adjustments, and maybe unsharp-mask but bringing two shots together to make one is more like graphic design than photography. Don't mean to offend anyone, just my opinion. Luckily, I still have like 10 rolls of slide film so that I can shoot some mults\abstracts in the next couple of months.
No offence taken.
Digital manipulation is just a technological evolution of what always happened in even straight???? photography............
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That's the problem with digital - you can't do mult exposures, but have to resort to digital manipulation. I won't do that. I'm fine with levels\curves adjustments, and maybe unsharp-mask but bringing two shots together to make one is more like graphic design than photography. Don't mean to offend anyone, just my opinion. Luckily, I still have like 10 rolls of slide film so that I can shoot some mults\abstracts in the next couple of months.
Well, there's obviously no real point in an argument about this. However, I don't understand why you think that doing double exposure blind in camera using film is preferable to doing it in view on a computer. Why is "digital manipulation" obviously bad, when "film manipulation" is good?
Jeremy
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That's the problem with digital - you can't do mult exposures, but have to resort to digital manipulation. I won't do that. I'm fine with levels\curves adjustments, and maybe unsharp-mask but bringing two shots together to make one is more like graphic design than photography. Don't mean to offend anyone, just my opinion. Luckily, I still have like 10 rolls of slide film so that I can shoot some mults\abstracts in the next couple of months.
nikon has had a multiple exposure feature in its digital cameras for quite some time...
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Thanks for the advice and comments. Reason I can't do it digitally is I don't have photoshop, only Lightroom.
I did try a kludge by taking a long exposure and slowly defocussing during the exposure - see the result over at User Critiques - but to be honest it didn't really work.
I guess I will have to get photoshop. Seems like a very big sledgehammer to crack a very small nut.
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Thanks for the advice and comments. Reason I can't do it digitally is I don't have photoshop, only Lightroom.
I guess I will have to get photoshop. Seems like a very big sledgehammer to crack a very small nut.
you can probably do it using photomatix or other similar programs http://www.hdrsoft.com/ (http://www.hdrsoft.com/)
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The Panasonic Lumix LX3 allows you to do up to 3 multi exposures. It overlays the previous exposure allowing for better composition. It shoots RAW as well.
A feature I love!