multiple exposure settings on 6D

[moneyflylane]

I like to use multiple shot drive settings when using the 6D's  multiple expiosure picture style. eg: shots of a horse juimping a gate. But it seems only single shot drive works, is this correct?

[moneyflylane]

Hi, You can still shoot in RAW with this and certainly the post process you mentioned is far more flexible  but it's fun to try this and see when it's useful.  It now appears that for my example;  a horse and rider jumping, fairly high speed things like that, the in camera process will not be applicable, the process you suggested would give me the results I am looking for.

[glongstaff]

multiple exposure settings is used to overlay 2 or more photos to be combined as one image in the camera as opposed to be done in photoshop or other photographic manipulation software......

It is not used for what you are looking to do...that is continous shooting mode, and there isn't any function for the shutter to be released by the camera ...you have to do this for every shot! (just hold down the button!)

[TCampbell]

You used the example of the horse jumping -- somewhat suggesting that you're just trying to get rapid shooting of action photography.

"Multiple Exposures" is intended for special effects...   in film photography we could take "double exposures" (or more than double)... by taking a photo and then cocking the shutter to shoot again WITHOUT advancing the film.  

The "multiple exposure" mode is a digital version of this in tha the camera will actually merge the images into a single image.  You would have to press the shutter button each time because typically you want to shoot different things.   E.g. you could shoot a wine glass, then shoot a person and the combined images might look like the person is a reflection on the glass -- and you can imagine that you would not shoot these in rapid succession because you'd want to change the shot for image part of the image.

If you're trying to photograph action shots with rapid shooting... that's completely different.  If that's what you want, it's "continuous" shooting mode.  

[amfoto1]

This is a multiple exposure image...

Not done "in camera", though. The wolf was photographed on film (later scanned into a digital image) with an Elan 7E, 28-135mm lens and 550EX flash, and the moon was shot digitally with a 10D, 500/4 IS lens and 2X teleconverter. The two images were combined in Photoshop.

The series below was shot with a 7D on continuous high speed drive, which is 8 frames per second, with 70-200mm lens, using AI Servo focus (and Back Button Focusing)...

So, what are you trying to do?

The 6D's high speed drive only gives 4.5 frames per second, so you shouldn't expect to get 3 or 4 shots of a horse and rider going over a jump (which takes less than 1 second). I rarely get 4 usable frames, even with the 8 fps of the 7D.

And, frankly, you still might see much better results by learning to carefully time a single shot for the peak moment of the action.... rather than using a high frame rate "spray and pray" technique (as it's called by some folks).

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