Bracketting? (sp?)

[The Tea Boy]

OK been looking into a bit of HDR but i know you need to take a few quick sucessive shots to do this which i have no problem with other than working out how to get the camera to take the photos and change the bracketting itself otherwise there will be a little gap in the photos where i have to change the settings.

Camera is Sony A200

Thnaks

Matt

[Bernie-the-bolt]

Stupid question.........have you checked that camera has that feature?

[jon-]

2nd result on google

http://www.cameralabs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=60...

[andy-xr]

I've always done HDR from a single RAW file through Photomatix, quick n dirty.

If you're going to be taking multiple shots you want them from the same composition, in which case plonk the camera on a tripod and adjust shutter speed on each shot. Doesnt matter how long the gap between photos is then

[GetCarter]

...except of course the clouds will have moved.

I bracket ALL the time - regardless of HDR. 1/3 of a stop each way, 3, 5 or 7 times. The camera does it automatically. If I find something I want to shoot, I want to cover all the bases! (My crap metering included)

[Kermit power]

GetCarter said:

...except of course the clouds will have moved.

I bracket ALL the time - regardless of HDR. 1/3 of a stop each way, 3, 5 or 7 times. The camera does it automatically. If I find something I want to shoot, I want to cover all the bases! (My crap metering included)

Do you have a particular reason for doing this rather than adjusting the RAW exposure after? Aren't you just using up your memory card 7 times faster?

[andy-xr]

GetCarter said:

...except of course the clouds will have moved.

Fair comment, not having shot much outdoors recently I'd not really thought too much about it. Pseudo HDR from a single RAW would sort that out though

[GetCarter]

Kermit power said:

GetCarter said:

...except of course the clouds will have moved.

I bracket ALL the time - regardless of HDR. 1/3 of a stop each way, 3, 5 or 7 times. The camera does it automatically. If I find something I want to shoot, I want to cover all the bases! (My crap metering included)

Do you have a particular reason for doing this rather than adjusting the RAW exposure after? Aren't you just using up your memory card 7 times faster?

Blown highlights can never be recovered - there is an absence of information - even in raw. And hey, memory is cheap! If I've just spent £500 going to take a photo in the outer Hebrides, 10p worth of memory card doesn't bother me.

Edited by GetCarter on Tuesday 19th May 20:01

[Kermit power]

GetCarter said:

Kermit power said:

GetCarter said:

...except of course the clouds will have moved.

I bracket ALL the time - regardless of HDR. 1/3 of a stop each way, 3, 5 or 7 times. The camera does it automatically. If I find something I want to shoot, I want to cover all the bases! (My crap metering included)

Do you have a particular reason for doing this rather than adjusting the RAW exposure after? Aren't you just using up your memory card 7 times faster?

Blown highlights can never be recovered - there is an absence of information - even in raw. And hey, memory is cheap! If I've just spent £500 going to take a photo in the outer Hebrides, 10p worth of memory card doesn't bother me.

Edited by GetCarter on Tuesday 19th May 20:01

Fair enough.

[onomatopoeia]

The A300 does exposure bracketing, since the A200 has the same body it might do it as well.

On the top of the body to the right of the flash show should be two push buttons, one for ISO near the strap attachemnt and to its left one which has a picture of a stopwatch with a single hand and what looks like a stack of playing cards next to it (on the A300 there is also a viewfinder / live view slide but I'm not sure if the A200 has live view or the slide). Press that one to select the "drive mode" menu and then you can scroll down through the options. One is single shot bracket which will take three pictures at +/- 0.3ev or +/- 0.7ev.

[The Tea Boy]

Hi everyone,

Thank you so much for your replies,
When i got home last night my late birthday present from the mrs turned up which was the fiel guide to the A200, its pretty good and has answered most of the questions i had. If only I had brought this book when I brought the camera!! :doh:

Matt