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Exposure Bracketing

Started Oct 2, 2021 | Discussions thread
Tom Schum
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Re: Exposure Bracketing
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Erik Baumgartner wrote:

Unless a scene has ridiculously high DR and I am already planning to do some sort of merge in post, I almost never bracket exposures. Frankly, it’s pretty rare that I can’t get a decent result with a single properly exposed RAW file (which is exceptionally easy to accomplish with a mirrorless camera with an EVF) in almost any situation.

I agree that Fuji raws have a lot of depth and can be processed quite well with the raw processor (Fuji/Silkypix version or others).

A nice set of exposure bracketed shots can be directly imported to a HDR program, and this might be a convenience.  The inconvenience is the slight motion of subject matter between shots.

Because of the sensor's available dynamic range, ISO bracketing can work very well.  This mode requires one shutter click and takes only one exposure, but processes that single exposure into three output files.  The first output file will be at the chosen exposure and ISO, the second will be at a higher ISO, and the third will be at a lower ISO.  These import very easily into a HDR program.  A deviation of +/- 1 EV is possible, depending on how you set it up, and you can get near-HDR images of moving subjects, unlike three separate exposure bracketed images.

I use ISO bracketing quite a bit, because I like using my HDR program.  If you prefer processing raws, a single exposure should do you just fine, as Erik states above.

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