[james_saltwood]

Although this suggestion is aimed for K-1 it might be applicable to other models as well.

"Onion skinning is a 2D computer graphics term for a technique used in creating animated cartoons and editing movies to see several frames at once. This way, the animator or editor can make decisions on how to create or change an image based on the previous image in the sequence." wikipedia

For obvious reasons, Onion Skin mode mode would only be possible combined with Live View mode.

In this mode you would select a previously taken photo, the default setting would be the last one but you could use any other photo, and it would be displayed superimposed with the Live View image.

One setting dial could be used to define the proportion of each of the images to mix, for instance from 10/90% to 90/10% (reference image/live view) - extreme values are useless (0/100% or 100/0%)!

It would be useful to have an onion skin mode not only for multiple exposure but also for stop motion and to create custom composition grids, other than thirds, fifths or diagonals... You would just have to draw your custom grid, make a photo of it, and use it in onion skin mode.

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Last edited by james_saltwood; 04-08-2017 at 05:05 AM.

[mee]

That would be really handy for composite images. Sometimes I take multiple images at different times of the year and composite them into a single shot.. this would make that a lot easier.

Or simply wanting a day and night composite and ensuring you're in the same spot..

[james_saltwood]

Just realized it would be helpful too for composite panoramas ;-)

[sculptor666]

would be great for macro stacking too.

[DavidDwight]

Great idea. Could work with an EVF also.