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Compact Cameras with Multiple Exposure?
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Leonard Migliore
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You mean like taking several pictures on the same piece of film? I don't think digital cameras have this feature since it's so much easier to do on a computer. Just combine multiple images on the screen. More control over everything that way.
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Leonard Migliore
johnparas11zenfoliodotcom
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my Leica d-lux 4 has it-- so maybe the LX3 panasonic will have it too..
I am not sure about my Canon G10 though..
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mamallama
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Leonard Migliore
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Looking in my D300 manual, I find that it does indeed have a multiple exposure feature. You can select the number of exposures from 2 to 10 and it offers the option of dividing the exposure by the number of pictures.
It says this works better than combining separate images because it uses the RAW data.
Obviously, I have never tried this feature.
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Leonard Migliore
It says this works better than combining separate images because it uses the RAW data.
Obviously, I have never tried this feature.
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Leonard Migliore
mamallama
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The main question is is each exposure made with a separate press of the shutter? And can each press be made minutes or hours or days apart? Then it would be true "multiple exposure" as we know it in the film world.
Try it on your D300 and let us know.
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mamallama
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We're talking digital here, so the question is how does multiple exposure work on a digital camera where images are recorded in a data file and not on a physical frame?
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Billx08
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mamallama
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My reading of this is that it's not like multiple exposure in the film world. I don't think you can take a picture of the moon at night and the next morning take a picture of your house and the image will be of the moon over your house. Am I reading the D300 manual correctly?
With film you just tell the film not to advance and you just shoot at will on that same frame.
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Leonard Migliore
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Quite so. The maximum time between shots is 30 seconds (unless you do something funky like increase the display on time to 10 minutes).
But you can still take separate images in Photoshop or your favorite image munging program and put them together freely. This is easier than exposing a frame twice because you can control the alignment and content better.
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Leonard Migliore
The OP's original question was about multiple exposures with a certain type of camera. Technically, you are right about files and frames. Virtually, the two terms are interchangeable and most people understand the concept. Technically, you can't tell film anything. It can't hear you. Yet, most people would understand the concept and wouldn't nitpick.
Billx08
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You read the manual correctly but I only quoted that parts that answered your questions pertaining to use of the shutter button. What wasn't quoted was anything from the preceding page because some of it referred to pictures of the D300's menu display. One of the settings is Auto Gain. The default setting is On, and the descriptions in the option table are :
Unfortunately the D300 can't duplicate the long interval that you describe because it terminates multiple exposure mode if no operations are performed for a period of from 30 seconds to 10 1/2 minutes, depending on the setting that has been chosen for the Monitor off delay. With Auto Gain enabled, the background is well exposed, but objects that weren't in all of the exposures will appear as ghosts. With Auto Gain disabled, as the manual recommends the background should be dark, but then you'd also need to reduce the exposure to compensate for objects that appear in multiple frames, otherwise they'll be grossly overexposed.
mamallama
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OK, if it helps you to understand my questions and not trigger your confrontational nature: the "it" in my questions means "multiple exposure on a digital camera". See my other posts in this thread if you are still not clear.
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johnparas11zenfoliodotcom wrote:
MaxAppman wrote:
I've always wanted to have this feature. Seems like a lot of creative opportunities opened up that can't be done any other way (correct me if I'm wrong).
Any idea if any compacts or micro 4/3 cameras have this feature?
Thanks,
Max
my Leica d-lux 4 has it-- so maybe the LX3 panasonic will have it too..
I am not sure about my Canon G10 though..
What's "it"? How does "it" work?
--mamallama
'Twas not I that was confrontational. The "it" that you responded to was quite clear in its reference.
MaxAppman wrote:
I've always wanted to have this feature. Seems like a lot of creative opportunities opened up that can't be done any other way (correct me if I'm wrong).
Any idea if any compacts or micro 4/3 cameras have this feature?
Thanks,
Max
my Leica d-lux 4 has it-- so maybe the LX3 panasonic will have it too..
I am not sure about my Canon G10 though..
What's "it"? How does "it" work?
--mamallama
'Twas not I that was confrontational. The "it" that you responded to was quite clear in its reference.
onlooker
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mamallama
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An you gave this simplistic answer, like I just climbed out of trees:
" "It" is the feature. The feature is multiple exposure. "It" works by recording two or more images on the same frame".
In fact, the "it" I asked about is not just "multiple exposure" which is the legacy definition you cited. In this case "it" in the question I asked is the multiple exposure feature on MaxAppman's Leica d-lux 4 .
--mamallama
Pangloss
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Also auto bracket, and multi aspect ratio.
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Andrew
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Andrew
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mamallama
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Apparently, "multiple exposure" has different meanings in different contexts and to different people. I think the OP was asking about multiple exposure in the sense that it was done with some film cameras. Without getting into a semantics problem that has confused one of my sequences on this thread, I ask a simple question:
With the LX3, can you take a picture of the moon at night and the next morning take a picture of your house in the same data file and end up with an image of the moon over your house?
--mamallama
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