Canon 400d AE bracketing

[ShiftZZ]

I am messing around with ae bracketing, the instructions are a bit vague,,,

Changed the settings, set the AE settings, but, I am only getting the one pic...

Any suggestions?

Dave

 

[Munchie]

Dave generally if you set the camera for bracketing, you set the amunt I.E. 1/2 stop over and 1/2 stop under the standard exposure. You then take 3 pics. there will be 1/2 stop difference in exposure from shot to shot.
Some cameras like mine will bracket up to 5 shots or more.

Hey that was sensible for a nutter.

 

[Munchie]

Should have said Dave YOU have to take the number of shots you have set for bracketing e.g. 3, 5 etc.

Oh and do not forget to turn bracketing off when you are finished!!! :thumb:

 

[ShiftZZ]

Ken

I have done that +1 % -1, press set, then take a pic, it only shows/stores one. The Instrcution manual is a bit so so..

Select [AEB].
* Under the [m] tab, select [AEB],
then press <Set>.
2 Set the AEB amount.
* Press the <> key to set the AEB
amount, then press <Set>.
*When you press the shutter button
halfway, the <h> icon and AEB
amount will be displayed on the LCD
monitor.
3 Take the picture.
* Focus and press the shutter button
completely. The three bracketed
shots will be taken in this sequence:
Standard, decreased, and increased
exposure.


Please can someone help before Old Mo comes with the answer I would never live it down..


Q. Does it automatically take 3 pics?

 

[Jim]

You need to take the three pics, generally the first will be over exposed, the second, correct the third under, but you'll quickly learn that this is not a very good way of taking pictures. Better if the Auto bracketing is done in one direction, for example, you know that the meter is going to be fooled by a bright scene and you want to compensate. Your camera should let you choose 3 different amounts, 3rd stop over, half over and a full stop over, ie all over, rather than the standard, 1 over 1 on and 1 under. Once you apply the thought to do this you'll find you get better results in manual mode and doing the bracketing yourself. :thumb:

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[ShiftZZ]

Thank

I was going to use it just to mess with HDR,.

Dave

 

[Jim]

Some Canons did take the three when in High Speed burst mode, Not au fait with your model but I'm sure you need to press the button three times.:thumb:

 

[Munchie]

If your camera is like mine Dave it will automatically set the bracketing you want. It does not take 3 or whatever photos YOU have to press the shutter however many times you have bracketed for. It will auto set the exposure to what you set in bracketing.

 

[Munchie]

Try it, set for bracketing 3 shots. At least one stop over and under so you can see the difference. Take 3 shots of the same thing and when you view them in the pooter you can see the "correct" exposure plus one darker and one lighter.

 

[656]

The trouble with using the Canon to auto the HDR is it looks cr4p! Even the Nikon does a bad job. You need to take the best parts of the 3 pics -1EV +0EV +1EV and merge them in Photoshop or Elements. Just my view, someone will disagree but HDR is very subjective.

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[Munchie]

Must admit I tried it and was not impressed.

 

[Gaz]

i have a programme that uses one photo to do hdr.

it is oloneo photoengine

 

[MikeandCarolyn]

If the drive mode is set to <u>, you must press the shutter button three
times. When <o> or <i> is set and you hold down the shutter button
completely, the three bracketed shots will be taken continuously. Then
the camera will stop shooting. When <j> or <l> is set, the three
bracketed shots will be taken after a 10-sec. or 2-sec. delay.
AEB can be combined with exposure compensation.
Neither flash nor bulb exposures can be used with AEB.

this applies to my 40d.

You can download a manual at canon site.
for playing with HRD -Photomatix is a good prog (free trial)
You can either do the 3 shot bracketting thingy (sposed to be best) or,you could take one shot in RAW at correct exposure then ,when you open it make 3 JPG images adjusting only the exposureby -1,0,+1. If you adjust anything else it should be by the same amount on each image.
Have fun.

Mike.

 

[jhorsf]

When reading this I was praying old mo would have come up with a comprehensive full page report of a reply

It really would have made my day