Question on R6 & R6II double exposure

Sittatunga wrote:

Alastair Norcross wrote:

spec68 wrote:

On, R5, and I think all Canon cameras that have the feature, it supports JPEG, RAW, and CRAW.

That's not true, I'm afraid. I have the R and the R7, and it works differently on each. With the R, you get the finished exposure in RAW (or CRAW). If you want to use an existing shot on the card as the first exposure, it also has to be RAW. With the R7, the finished shot is JPEG, even if you're shooting in RAW, and you can only use JPEGs as the basis for a double exposure with an existing shot (as opposed to taking both shots with the double exposure setting activated). I much prefer the implementation on the R.

Thanks Alastair, I'd never even bothered to look for that function on the R. It's just so much easier to compose the image in my own time on a relaxed evening than to do it on site with all the time pressure and the need to get it right first time. I get the Kodachrome approach of doing it all in camera with no subsequent processing, and the photojournalism standard of sooc jpegs to rule out fakery, but the Victorian / Ansel Adams approach of long hours in the darkroom dodging, burning and compositing has a much longer history.

Also pretty sure it doesn't work on e-shutter. That said, why not compose the multiple exposure in post and have more control over the final image?

I hear you. I only used it on my R for a challenge that specified no post processing. I used it as an excuse to relive my early days of film shooting on a manual focus SLR with a 50mm lens. I did quite a few multiple exposures with my early SLRs. For the challenge I shot my R with RF 50 F1.8 in manual focus and B&W. It was quite fun.