[HDR-photo] Manual Bracketing vs. Automatic Bracketing

[Thomas Zimmer]

Hi Yuv

Are you willing to share your personal development code and schematics?

I happen to also be a software developer,

Tom Zimmer
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On Sep 14, 2009, at 12:54 AM, Yuval Levy (HDR Mailing List) wrote:

> Bill Conway wrote:
>> Set your AEB to 2 then set your Exposure Compensation to -2 your  
>> shots will
>> be -4, -2, and 0 then set your EV to -1 your shots will be -3, -1,  
>> +1, then
>> set your EV to 0 and your shots will be -2, 0, +2, set your EV to  
>> +1 and
>> your shots will be -1, +1, +3 Set your EV to +2 you shots will be  
>> 0, +2, +4.
>> You now have all 1 stop exposures from -4 to +4 with a couple extra  
>> you can
>> delete.
>> In manual mode you establish your normal exposure and adjust the  
>> shutter
>> speed to do your under and over exposures.
>
> thank you, Bill. Your method is a work around a weakness that  
> manufacturers should feel ashame still exist in their camera bodies.
>
> been there, done that.
>
> why do it manually if it can be automated? besides, any single touch  
> to the camera control while shooting a bracket is a risk.
>
> I use a custom built external device that I programmed for the task.  
> I just find it stupid that such workarounds are required.
>
> Yuv
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