topic Re: Canon R5 AEB in conjunction with Interval Timer for Eclipse shooting in EOS DSLR & Mirrorless Cameras

Canon R5 AEB in conjunction with Interval Timer for Eclipse shooting

JimCarm — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 16:02:33 GMT

I'm prepping for shooting the April eclipse and I want to set my Canon R5 to take a bracketed shot (-3/0/+3) at an interval of maybe 2 minutes for an indefinite number of shots (i.e.- until I manually stop it).

The manual leads me to believe that the two can work in conjunction and it does but not how I need it. I need a bracketed 3 shot series EVERY 2 minutes. What I'm getting is 3 bracketed shots- but each exposure taken at 2 minutes apart.

The manual seems to indicate that if I'm in either fast continuous or slow continuous shutter mode (which I've tried), I will get the 3 bracketed shots taken immediately...which happens but only when I am NOT in the interval mode.

I'm trying to avoid having to push a remote release every two minutes for a few hours...but I also need to bracket.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Jim

Re: Canon R5 AEB in conjunction with Interval Timer for Eclipse shooting

Waddizzle — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 16:41:01 GMT

Enable HDR mode, not AEB.

Set the number of shots in your Interval Timer to “00”.

Use High Speed Drive mode.

Re: Canon R5 AEB in conjunction with Interval Timer for Eclipse shooting

Waddizzle — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 16:47:17 GMT

Doing it with AEB might work if you enable the Shutter Delay Timer. Test it, and see.

Re: Canon R5 AEB in conjunction with Interval Timer for Eclipse shooting

JimCarm — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 17:39:36 GMT

Waddizzle,

Thanks for the reply but HDR won't work for this application. When shooting in HDR mode the only two output options are an: automatically merged JPEG or a merged JPEG with the three individual shots captured but still only in JPEG- even if you are shooting RAW- which you really need to be for eclipse photography.

Re: Canon R5 AEB in conjunction with Interval Timer for Eclipse shooting

JimCarm — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 17:42:26 GMT

Waddizzle,

Again thanks. I'm not sure what you mean by "Shutter Delay Timer". If you mean the Self Timer than no- this doesn't work either. It takes you out of High Continuous or Low Continuous and just takes a single image at the prescribed interval in the interval shooting menu.

Re: Canon R5 AEB in conjunction with Interval Timer for Eclipse shooting

JimCarm — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 19:24:13 GMT

Waddizzle- correction...now the AEB/interval does seem to be working with the self timer. Not sure what changed. If I get any more insight, I'll post. Thanks again.

Re: Canon R5 AEB in conjunction with Interval Timer for Eclipse shooting

Waddizzle — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 20:00:38 GMT

@JimCarm wrote:
Waddizzle,
Thanks for the reply but HDR won't work for this application. When shooting in HDR mode the only two output options are an: automatically merged JPEG or a merged JPEG with the three individual shots captured but still only in JPEG- even if you are shooting RAW- which you really need to be for eclipse photography.

Are you sure about that? You can shoot RAW in HDR mode. You should also be able to tell it to save the original captures, instead of discarding them.

The JPG it creates is pretty much irrelevant. It should automatically capture (3) bracketed exposures and save them as RAW files.

Re: Canon R5 AEB in conjunction with Interval Timer for Eclipse shooting

lwatawala — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 15:04:50 GMT

Hello Waddizzle, I just posted this queestion https://community.usa.canon.com/t5/EOS-DSLR-Mirrorless-Cameras/Use-of-Interval-Timer-for-photographing-a-Solar-Eclipse/td-p/470459

Hope you will be able to help me with it. Thanks.