A Camera Q

On Tue, 18 Aug 2015 06:31:07 -0700 (PDT), Whisky-dave
wrote:

To B or not to B

The B setting on cameras, you'd have thought that in this day and age the B setting could be a toggle function as the only reason to use B is typicall for exposures of longer duration than 15 or 30 seconds which appear a common maximium.

So B for long exposures of 30 so how can I hold this shutter release down for say up to an hour or perhaps longer...

Why can't the B setting be updated to a toggle function..via firmware..or a new function added, other than wanting to sell expensive remotes.......
I can trigger my EOS M3 with my ipad but why can't I have longer exposures via the ipad it'd be relatively simple to program I'd have thought.
Just keep sending the open instruction to the camera for an amount of time set on the ipad.

Buy a Pentax? On mine, the shutter stays open until I press the
shutter button a second time. Or are you talking about something else?

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Whisky-dave wrote:

Buy a Pentax?

Nah, won;t take my leneses ;-)

On mine, the shutter stays open until I press the
shutter button a second time. Or are you talking about something else?

No that's exactly what I want, and I can;t understand why canon and others
(pentax excluded) don;t have this option

i think nikon does on some slrs. most don't because too few people want
it and because it's trivial do do with a remote.

as I said who'd use B for exposures
under 30 secs anyway.

lots of people.

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Whisky-dave wrote:

as I said who'd use B for exposures
under 30 secs anyway.

lots of people.

for what, traditionaly it was used so you could fire of bulbs for flash work
they can;t have retained that setting purely for such people have they ?
Most cameras that I have seen have 15 secs minium .
My old prakitacs went to 1 second and had B.

digital cameras generally go to 30 seconds without needing bulb.