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I use an iPhone app which can do multiple exposures with no limit. Press the button & it takes several pictures a second until you stop it; all the while integrating the images to a single long-exposure result which appears before your eyes. It completely removes the need for a 'big stopper' filter to get daytime long exposures and one can see what's happening at all times. Great - but it's on my phone.

Does any camera, probably a mirrorless, have similar software? All I can find is cameras that merge between 2 and 8 pictures. Sony have downloadable apps but even that doesn't seem to have anything suitable.

Anyone know of a suitable camera?

-Thanks!
-Michael
 
I don't know of any 'real' cameras that offer this (there may well be one), but one can take multiple exposures and process them afterwards for similar results (see Long Exposure Stacker , one way to accomplish this task).
 
MichaelInUK said:
I use an iPhone app which can do multiple exposures with no limit. Press the button & it takes several pictures a second until you stop it; all the while integrating the images to a single long-exposure result which appears before your eyes. It completely removes the need for a 'big stopper' filter to get daytime long exposures and one can see what's happening at all times. Great - but it's on my phone.

Does any camera, probably a mirrorless, have similar software? All I can find is cameras that merge between 2 and 8 pictures. Sony have downloadable apps but even that doesn't seem to have anything suitable.

Anyone know of a suitable camera?

-Thanks!
-Michael
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Makes perfect sense on a smartphone where users are sharing photos immediately. Makes a lot less sense for ILC camera users, who are typically advanced users that want to download the images and work with them to get the image they want rather than having it done the same way by the camera each time. Different types of users, different solutions.

Mark
 
MichaelInUK said:
I use an iPhone app which can do multiple exposures with no limit. Press the button & it takes several pictures a second until you stop it; all the while integrating the images to a single long-exposure result which appears before your eyes. It completely removes the need for a 'big stopper' filter to get daytime long exposures and one can see what's happening at all times. Great - but it's on my phone.

Does any camera, probably a mirrorless, have similar software? All I can find is cameras that merge between 2 and 8 pictures. Sony have downloadable apps but even that doesn't seem to have anything suitable.

Anyone know of a suitable camera?
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Pentax DLSRs can do lots although not quite infinite - the latest models do up to 2000 exposures; earlier ones had 1000 and 100.

It doesn't work in quite the way you describe, though. You tell the camera how many shots you want and the interval between them (minimum 1s, max 24hr); you also set the exposure. You see the result after each shot so you can stop before reaching the number you set if you want to.

An advantage for getting rid of such things as people in the shots is that you can spread the exposures out a bit to give them time to move on. This is a merge of a dozen exposures spread over about 15-20min; there must have been close to 50 people stopping to look but the only one that registered is the one siting in the porch.

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Olympus does the same in Live View Bulb mode IIRC.
 
Olympus has camera's with a Live Composite mode that sounds like it does a similar thing.
 
Thanks for the answers! So far it looks like I need to investigate Olympus & Pentax. I'm very pleased that some camera manufacturers are trying to keep up with smartphone technology!
 
MichaelInUK said:
Thanks for the answers! So far it looks like I need to investigate Olympus & Pentax. I'm very pleased that some camera manufacturers are trying to keep up with smartphone technology!
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