Best way to do bracketing for HDR on 5D MK II?

[nofumble]

Give them time.

It has been very stable on other Rebel models.

 

[akin_t]

Perhaps a less aggressive tone than you use in all your posts might help a tad? Oh, and a link to your work that shows a huge DR scene captured in 3 brackets please.

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Sure. I believe these are from 2010. I shot a 7D (supposedly inferior DR), and I did them handheld. So I saved myself from buying a $300 remote control.

HDR Panorama on a 7D, 6 unique scenes each bracketed -2, 0, +2. "Handheld"



HDR on a 7D, 1 scene bracketed -2, 0, +2. "Handheld"

 

[Floydimus Prime]

jl_smith wrote:

I don't have a Mk II anymore, so I'm probably missing a few details, but I DO know there is a way to set this up:

Basically I set up a custom mode on the dial (C3) to take three shots (-2, 0, +2) while in Live view using the 2sec timer.

I THINK you have to mess around with the drive mode but I'm not positive.

So basically -

I would turn dial to C3.
Enter Live view, compose.
Click shutter, wait 2 seconds, and shutter makes three exposures.

No need for a remote or MLU since the mirror is already up in LV and the 5D2 uses electronic front curtain so there's no mirror flopping.

Experiment around, it didn't take me long to figure it out. Sorry I can't tell you exactly because I don't have the camera any more.

Also, me personally, I never saw much value in taking tons of shots for HDR. 3 shots of 2,0,+2 worked fine for pretty much everything I needed. YMMV though.