DRIVE – Exposure Bracketing

Exposure bracketing automatically exposes a series of frames with exposures above and below the metered exposure value. Bracket your exposures when shooting slides and other films with a low tolerance for exposure error.

•This camera can expose a 3, 5, or 7 frame brackets in increments of 0.3, 0.5, 0.7, or 1.0 EV.

•A larger bracketing increment is recommended when shooting negative film.

Manual (M) and aperture priority (A) mode exposures are bracketed by changing the shutter speed.

Shutter priority (S) mode exposures are bracketed by changing the aperture.

1. Turn the drive-mode lever to the desired bracketing mode.

S – Single Frame Advance

C – Continuous Advance

2. Open the control panel, then press the adjust button.

3. Turn the front control dial to set the bracketing increment (0.3, 0.5, 0.7, or 1.0 EV).

4. Turn the rear control dial to set the size of the bracket (3, 5 or 7 frames).

5.Press the shutter-release button partway down to enter the settings.

• appears in the data panel when single frame advance is selected.

6.Compose and meter your subject, then press the shutter-release button all the way down to start the bracket.

•Exposure is locked on the first frame of the series.

•The exposure setting changes automatically.

•Press the AE-lock button when the shutter is released to bracket using the aperture in M- Mode.

Bracketing Notes

Continuous – Hold the shutter-release button down until the series is finished.

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Removing your finger from the shutter-release button before the

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series is complete resets the camera to the first frame of the

 

bracket.

 

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Continuous advance bracketing is cancelled at the end of the roll.

 

Single – Press the shutter-release button for each exposure.

•,,… will be displayed in the frame counter.

•Film can be changed in the middle of the bracketed series.

•Turn the main switch to LOCK or select another drive mode to cancel single frame advance bracketing.

Custom Function Notes

Switch to setting 2 to change the bracketing sequence to under exposures, metered exposure, over exposures (p.97).

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