bracketing & exposure compensation

"D O'Reilly" wrote in message
om...
I have a canon G5, my problem is that in full manual mode ,the
exposure bracketing & exposure compensation functions are not
available,does anyone know how to perform these functions using
another method,please help.

Dave.

You don't need it in full manual - that's the point of manual mode.
Besides, how would the camera know how to bracket or do exposure
compensation? i.e. would it bracket/compensate with shutter speed or
aperture?

Mark

"D O'Reilly" wrote in message
om...
I have a canon G5, my problem is that in full manual mode ,the
exposure bracketing & exposure compensation functions are not
available,does anyone know how to perform these functions using
another method,please help.

Dave.


I don't know if your Canon is like mine, but in the back of my manual
there's a chart that list which functions are available in the different
modes.

On my camera, exposure bracketing is only available in Program, Shutter
Priority, and Aperture Priority modes. Exposure compensation is available in
every mode except Auto and Manual.

"D O'Reilly" wrote in message
om...
I have a canon G5, my problem is that in full manual mode ,the
exposure bracketing & exposure compensation functions are not
available,does anyone know how to perform these functions using
another method,please help.

Dave.


I don't know if your Canon is like mine, but in the back of my manual
there's a chart that list which functions are available in the different
modes.

On my camera, exposure bracketing is only available in Program, Shutter
Priority, and Aperture Priority modes. Exposure compensation is available in
every mode except Auto and Manual.

"Mark B." writes:

"D O'Reilly" wrote in message
om...
I have a canon G5, my problem is that in full manual mode ,the
exposure bracketing & exposure compensation functions are not
available,does anyone know how to perform these functions using
another method,please help.

You don't need it in full manual - that's the point of manual mode.
Besides, how would the camera know how to bracket or do exposure
compensation? i.e. would it bracket/compensate with shutter speed or
aperture?

It could, and I would even consider it useful sometimes, shoot at the
manually-set exposure, and then at a higher and lower exposure -- just
what I'd do if bracketing manually, only much faster.

Compensation could offset the meter reading -- but I do feel,
personally, that I'd rather it didn't; when thinking manual I've got
decades of habits that would be confused by that.
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(D O'Reilly) wrote in
om:

I have a canon G5, my problem is that in full manual mode ,the
exposure bracketing & exposure compensation functions are not
available,does anyone know how to perform these functions using
another method,please help.


Adjust aperture, or shutter speed, to both sides of chosen manual
setting. The G5 allows adjustments in 1/3 stops for both aperture and
shutter. Unless you're extremely picky about maintaining detail in shadow
areas, this is probably overkill. Adjustments of 1 stop (three clicks over,
three clicks under) for either aperture or shutter should be adequate.

Do a websearch on photography basics, so you'll know what all this
means.


- Al.

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"Bart van der Wolf" wrote in message
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"D O'Reilly" wrote in message
om...
I have a canon G5, my problem is that in full manual mode ,the
exposure bracketing & exposure compensation functions are not
available,does anyone know how to perform these functions using
another method,please help.

P-mode.

Oops, misread full manual mode as automatic. Manual is Manual exposure
all the way. Exposure compensation is only possible by varying
exposure time or aperture by hand.

Bart

In message , I,
wrote:

"Exposure bracketing" and "Exposure compensation" are totally
meaningless concepts in manual mode.

That should have been "automatic" EB and EC.

But now that I think more about it, you may have a point. You could
conceivably have a "manual" bracketing mode where shutter speed and
aperture vary in two extra exposures in the same direction, say by a
half stop in each direction, for each stop of variation required. So,
if you set the camera for +-2 stop, and 1/200 @ f4, it might also take
exposures of 1/100 @ f2.8, and 1/400 @ f5.6.

You could also have a mode where exposure is the same for images 2 and
3, but the balance of aperture and shutter speed are varied:

1/200 @ f4, 1/100 @ f5.6, and 1/400 @ f2.8.

You can get even crazier and add ISO bracketing.

You could do whatever you wanted if they let you program the cameras,
instead of giving you traditional modes.
--


John P Sheehy

In message , I,
wrote:

"Exposure bracketing" and "Exposure compensation" are totally
meaningless concepts in manual mode.

That should have been "automatic" EB and EC.

But now that I think more about it, you may have a point. You could
conceivably have a "manual" bracketing mode where shutter speed and
aperture vary in two extra exposures in the same direction, say by a
half stop in each direction, for each stop of variation required. So,
if you set the camera for +-2 stop, and 1/200 @ f4, it might also take
exposures of 1/100 @ f2.8, and 1/400 @ f5.6.

You could also have a mode where exposure is the same for images 2 and
3, but the balance of aperture and shutter speed are varied:

1/200 @ f4, 1/100 @ f5.6, and 1/400 @ f2.8.

You can get even crazier and add ISO bracketing.

You could do whatever you wanted if they let you program the cameras,
instead of giving you traditional modes.
--


John P Sheehy

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I have a canon G5, my problem is that in full manual mode ,the
exposure bracketing & exposure compensation functions are not
available,does anyone know how to perform these functions using
another method,please help.

On a related note: I have a car with an automatic transmission. My
problem is that I'd like change the gears manually. I have searched
the internet, with no acceptable solution in sight. Please help!

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(D O'Reilly) wrote:

I have a canon G5, my problem is that in full manual mode ,the
exposure bracketing & exposure compensation functions are not
available,does anyone know how to perform these functions using
another method,please help.

On a related note: I have a car with an automatic transmission. My
problem is that I'd like change the gears manually. I have searched
the internet, with no acceptable solution in sight. Please help!

If your going to post a comment on this thread, no matter how useless
it is,
please make sure you have a basic understanding of how to construct a
sentence.
Like putting the word "to" (read slowly) in between "like" and
"change",you
neanderthal.

"you're" He means "you're" comma space nextword nextword+1