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E-pm2 bulb. need help from anyone who has it.

Started Jan 10, 2014 | Discussions thread
Guy Parsons
Guy Parsons Forum Pro • Posts: 40,000
With my E-PL5....

Should be same as my E-PL5, manual mode and select the shutter time = Live Time (go past 60 seconds), where press 1 starts the exposure and press 2 stops the exposure. Bulb setting needs to hold the shutter down all the time of the exposure.

In Custom Menu E - Bulb/Time Timer sets the absolute end limit for any exposure, so you can limit to a choice of 1, 2, 4, 8, 15, 20, 25, 30 minutes.

Also in Custom Menu E you can set the live view update period so you can see the image build up on the screen, too many updates makes more image noise.

Be prepared for lots of image noise anyway.

I have never used the live time feature but experiment with Noise Reduction On/Off as Noise Reduction is Dark Frame Subtraction where an automatic equal time dark exposure is made after the main exposure to help subtract long exposure noise, maybe it works with time/bulb........ tested just now, yes it does, so there's a 30 second delay after a 30 second exposure to do that Noise Reduction.

Regards..... Guy

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