EXPOSURE BRACKETINGContinuous Advance Bracketing

To make an automatic three-frame bracket. The drive mode is automatically set to continuous advance when bracketing is selected.

1 Hold the shutter-release button all the way down to make the bracket.

• Three frames will be taken. Do not release the shutter button until all three exposures are made.

• If the shutter button is released before the three exposures are made, the current bracket will be canceled.

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

Single Frame Advance Bracketing

To take each picture of the three-frame bracket individually, set the drive mode to single frame advance.

1 Press the drive-mode button

until

appears on the

data panel.

•

will appear on the data panel

after pressing the shutter-release

button partway down to indicate the

first bracket.

2 Press the shutter button all the
Flash Notes

•The built-in flash is set to flash cancel when bracketing is selected.

•An attached Minolta accessory flash will be turned off when bracketing is selected.

Canceling Bracketing

1 Turn the function dial to

.

 

2 Press the function button and

 

turn the control dial until

 

 

appears on the data panel.

 

 

• Sliding the main switch to OFF in the

 

 

middle of a bracketing series resets the

 

bracketing series to the first frame

 

 

(

).

 

 

Bracketing with the Exposure-compensation Button

 

DETAILED OPERATION

This function is a shortcut to take a three-frame bracket in increments of

 

0.5 Ev.

 

 

 

While pressing the exposure-

 

 

compensation button, press and

 

 

hold the shutter-release button

 

 

all the way down.

 

 

way down to take each bracket.

• The shutter-release button must be pressed for each bracket.

• To cancel the bracketing series, turn the camera off.

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

• and will appear on the data panel to indicate the bracket frame.

Exposure-

compensation

button

•The camera automatically exposes a three-frame bracketed series.

•Releasing the shutter-release button before the series is complete, cancels the exposure series.

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