ISO Bracket w/ Continuous High

[awellslo]

I want to shoot 3 Bracketed Shots on Continuous High.  I want to set up my X-T1 so I can shoot hand-held and later stitch together 3 bracketed shots.  I want to keep my shutter speed and aperture constant therefore, I want to set up the bracketing by ISO.  

 

While looking into setting my camera to do this, I ran into a stumbling block in that the Continuous High, and Bracketed Shooting are on the same dial.  Therefore, I cannot have them both selected at the same time.  Is there a way to achieve this goal another way?

 

Help is much appreciated.

 

Alex

 

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[flysurfer]

ISO BKT is Single Shot JPEG-only (= pretty useless).

[awellslo]

Ok.  I understand what you mean.  I want to use RAW.  How about this then:  Can I shoot Continuous High,  3-Bracketed shots, varying the shutter speed?  In a sense, my question remains the same: Is there a way to use Continuous High and Bracket at the same time even though those functions are on the same dial?  What I am after is a quick burst of three.

 

Thanks,

 

 

Alex

[CRAusmus]

Don't you get a quick burst of three just by bracketing?

 

The camera wouldn't be able to determine which of your 8-10 frames you'd want bracketed.  I'm assuming that's why it doesn't work in Continuous Shooting Modes.  Rico could probably answer it better though.

[awellslo]

Thanks you CRAusmus.  However, I believe I need to press the shutter release 3 times to get the three bracketed shots.  Additionally, my goal is to get the three shots as quickly as possible so I can (potentially) layer them together.  I need to handhold so I am looking for the quickness so there is as little movement as possible between each shot.  

 

Alex

[CRAusmus]

Thanks you CRAusmus.  However, I believe I need to press the shutter release 3 times to get the three bracketed shots.  Additionally, my goal is to get the three shots as quickly as possible so I can (potentially) layer them together.  I need to handhold so I am looking for the quickness so there is as little movement as possible between each shot.  

 

Alex

 

Nope.  You push the button once and the camera takes three shots.

[awellslo]

Nope.  You push the button once and the camera takes three shots.

 

 

Right you are!  I should have checked first.

 

Now, I just want to take those shots as quickly as possible.  I tried switching to Electronic Shutter only and that seems to be speedier.  However, if you have any suggestions to get them to fire off more rapidly, I'd appreciate it.  

 

I want to blend the exposures in post later.  I want to shoot from my airplane (example above).  Therefore, I want to try to capture the best exposure for the ground and sky (if at all possible.)  Obviously, I will be moving (hand-held) but also because of the movement of the airplane.  However, at a decent height, the apparent speed is actually quite low.  If I can get the shots to fire off very rapidly, I figure they will mesh together better in post.

 

This is all theoretical at this point.  Just something I want to try when weather conditions improve.  Your help is appreciated.

 

Alex

[flysurfer]

Airplane and ES doesn't sound like a good idea. Airplanes tend to move fast, so rolling shutter could be an issue. That said, it should work from greater heights, but I doubt that the ES is really faster than the MS in burst mode, at least in the X-T1. 8 fps is the limit, and exposure BKT should work at 8 fps. At least it does in my X-Pro2.

Edited June 14, 2016 by flysurfer

[awellslo]

Thank you.  I am aware of the limitations of the electronic shutter.  I prefer to use the manual shutter.  I simply want to take a burst of three exposure bracketed shots as quickly as possible.  Is there a way to combine Continuous High and Exposure Bracketing?

[flysurfer]

Normally, Exp. BKT should always use CH. At least it does on my X-Pro2. With this camera, it's a great way to quickly get two handheld RAWs with 4 EV exposure difference in quick succession (only 1/8s lag between the two). Using the ISOless sensor and merging the 2 RAWs in Lightroom to form a HDR DNG, this method leads to RAW files with up to 7 stops of additional DR, which pretty much solves every "normal" exposure problem.

 

Sadly, the X-T1 doesn't do ± 2 EV bracketing (only ± 1 EV), so this method is limited there. 

Edited June 14, 2016 by flysurfer