D90 Bracketing

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Am I right in thinking the bracketing feature on the D90 works by taking each shot seperatly, i.e I have to press the button 3 times?

Just checking as on my old bridge that did bracketing it took all 3 shots straight away upon pressing the shutter so all 3 shots were identical other than the exposure, having tried it with D90 today I couldn't find a way to do that only way to get the Over>under etc was to press the shutter 3 times. Not a real issue for a non moving shot but going to make stacking them harder for a moving shot (if that makes sense)
 
ive read the manual thanks and it doesn't say you actually have to take a single shot for each exposure or one for all 3, i'm guessing its not automatic from what i haveread already but wanted to check with other users in case i was missing something obvious
 
I'd expect that after choosing the bracketing parameters you just hold the shutter release down. There's a very easy way to find out, and you won't waste any film doing it ...

Ha! It appears from the second video posted above that the shutter release needs to be set to continuous to do that. If it's set to single shot then you press 3 times if you've set up a 3-set bracket?

That's my interpretation after looking VERY quickly - check out the 2nd video.
 
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i have done that of course, as i said i wanted to check im not missing something obvious like a setting I have over looked maybe but it appears this is the way it is.
 
In single shot mode, press the shutter for each exposure. In continuous shot mode, hold it down.

Don't forget to turn it off afterwards, other wise you'll have a sequence of random photos with exposure all over the shop.
 
thanks,
I have been playing with it I think i was just hoping it would work in the same way as the bridge I had as that ensured each shot was identical other than the exposure obviously.

In reality is there much point of using bracketing for HDR, would I just be better to manually create 3 files with different exposures from a single image in lightroom first?
 
pitkin2020 said:
Am I right in thinking the bracketing feature on the D90 works by taking each shot seperatly, i.e I have to press the button 3 times?

Just checking as on my old bridge that did bracketing it took all 3 shots straight away upon pressing the shutter so all 3 shots were identical other than the exposure, having tried it with D90 today I couldn't find a way to do that only way to get the Over>under etc was to press the shutter 3 times. Not a real issue for a non moving shot but going to make stacking them harder for a moving shot (if that makes sense)
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I had this exact same issue. (But from the opposite direction - drove me mad, I couldn't work out why only one image in three was correctly exposed) You need to both turn on bracketing, *and* turn on multi-shot, for it to work how you want - two different buttons.
 
I had bracketing turned on and have continuous shot mode on, so it'll take a sequence of shots with the shutter pressed down, which is ok but if holding the camera you will always get a little movement so the 3 shots aren't exactly aligned with each other. Tripod would obviously resolve this but the issue would still arise in a very fast moving scene if that makes sense
 
pitkin2020 said:
I had bracketing turned on and have continuous shot mode on, so it'll take a sequence of shots with the shutter pressed down, which is ok but if holding the camera you will always get a little movement so the 3 shots aren't exactly aligned with each other. Tripod would obviously resolve this but the issue would still arise in a very fast moving scene if that makes sense
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Ah, OK. No, it's always going to have to take three exposures. However, any competent HDR software will be able to handle this for you and realign them.
 
Ok thanks I'm glad it's confirmed and I wasn't missing something lol
 
Yeah I did think that tbh that will be ok for most things I intend to use HDR for just obviously not a perfect solution for a fast moving object/scene but guess if I ever get tht far I'll find out lol
 
HDR not really conducive to" fast moving object/scene" its more for static objects cheers mike
 
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Yeah I did think that tbh that will be ok for most things I intend to use HDR for just obviously not a perfect solution for a fast moving object/scene but guess if I ever get tht far I'll find out lol
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Then in this case you would take one RAW at the lowest ISO you can fet away with and make the bracketted shots from this.

Assuming the iso is low enough it will look fine.
 
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