Today I'm answering questions about automatic exposure
bracketing on Canon EOS R mirrorless cameras.
If you want to know how to set up automatic exposure bracketing
and how to save your settings to a custom shooting mode,
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The first question is something that I can relate to
because I've had this experience myself and it's, “Why
am I seeing a blinking star in the lower left of the screen?”
This also had me stumped when I first tried automatic exposure bracketing.
When you see both the exposure level indicator and a star
in the lower left of the screen flashing, the camera is trying to tell you
that it's waiting for the next image in the sequence to be taken.
In other words, it's waiting for you to do something.
And in this case, it's pressing the shutter button.
Often we use
automatic exposure bracketing with a 2sec shutter delay
because after pressing and letting go of the shutter button, the camera
will automatically take all three bracketed shots, one after another.
Like so.
But when the camera drive mode is set to single shooting,
you need to press the shutter button again for each of the remaining shots.
That's what the flashing star is saying.
So keep pressing the shutter button until all the shots have been taken.
And maybe next time, use the 2sec shutter delay.
Another scenario where you might see the flashing star
is if you're in one of the continuous shooting modes and you take your finger
off the shutter button before all the bracketed shots have been taken.
The flashing star is the camera waiting for you to press the shutter button again.
The next question is if I use continuous shooting,
will the camera carry on taking shots after the three bracketed images?
Well, let's see.
I've got my EOS R in automatic exposure
bracketing mode and it’s in high speed continuous.
Now let's see what happens when I press and hold the shutter button.
Even though the camera is set to continuous shooting,
it stops taking any further shots after the final bracketed shot.
The next question also resonated with me because this had me stumped
when I first started using automatic exposure bracketing.
And the question is, “How do you cancel automatic exposure bracketing?”
Well, there are two basic ways to cancel this.
The easiest way is to simply turn off the camera.
But this assumes that in the custom function menu
bracketing auto cancel is set to on.
If your camera seems to be stuck in automatic exposure bracketing mode, check
whether the bracketing auto cancel is set to off.
If it is set to off the automatic exposure, bracketing settings
will be retained even after you've turned off the camera
and turned it back on again.
Make sure bracketing auto cancel is set to ON.
The second way of cancelling automatic exposure
bracketing is to do the reverse of the setup procedure.
Press the menu button.
Go to the third page of the Red Camera tab.
Select Expo.comp/AEB
and press the Q quick selection button.
Roll the vertical scroll wheel to the left until you have a single line
at zero on the exposure level indicator, and the lower scale disappears.
Tap on SET/OK, or press the Q button.
Then press the menu button to exit back to the shooting screen.
Moving on to the third question, it's,
“When is automatic exposure bracketing not available?”
If you find that you can't enable automatic exposure bracketing, it could be
because of one or more settings you've currently got selected.
Automatic exposure, bracketing cannot be used with flash,
HDR mode, or Silent/Electronic shutter.
The next question brings an autofocus.
“Should I disable autofocus when using automatic exposure bracketing?”
Although I've never experienced any problems
when using autofocus with automatic exposure bracketing.
There is a chance, I suppose, of the focus shifting between exposures.
To be safe, set the focus using autofocus
and then change to manual focus on the lens.
Or alternatively, you could set autofocus to One-Shot.
And that brings us to number five and the final question,
which is, “In which shooting modes can I use automatic exposure bracketing?”
Well, there are five shooting modes in which you can use automatic
exposure bracketing.
They are Flexible priority, Program, Shutter
priority, Aperture priority, and Manual exposure.
The one that I use pretty much all of the time is Manual.
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