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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help 08-08-2015, 01:12 PM

K3 Multi exposure triggering
Posted By duetto96

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Folks, Thanks for your interest and wisdom on this. I think, with the possible exclusion of Ricoh support, we are now all in agreement of how ME actually works.

Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help 08-07-2015, 02:26 AM

K3 Multi exposure triggering
Posted By duetto96

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Views: 1,666

FYI, I asked Ricoh the same question (prior to asking it on this forum), they have just responded with the opposite of what the forum has stated.

I trust the experts on the forum but Ricoh are saying a single shutter release should take all the exposures in Multiple Exposure composite mode. Ricoh response below:

Thank you for contacting Ricoh Imaging.
When Multiple Exposure mode is activated on K-3 camera and the composite mode and the number of photos to be take are set then the camera takes that number of photos at singe press of shutter release button. If you are in need of further assistance, please respond to this email or call our technical support center.

Sincerely,
Ricoh Imaging Technical Support

Tel: 0207-949-0059.

Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help 08-06-2015, 06:25 AM

K3 Multi exposure triggering
Posted By duetto96

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Views: 1,666

Great, thanks for those answers.

Excluding Interval ME (because 'I think' I have that nailed), I have one more ME related question you can also help me with. I don't think what I'm asking is possible but thought it would help with my understanding of the different ME composite modes.

If I wanted to make a composite of two identical exposures of a scene but where an item in that scene changed position between shots in order to appear twice, is this possible to achieve within camera. I have played around with 'average', 'additive' and 'bright'. I can understand why 'average' leaves the moving item under exposed/ghosted out compared to the non moving part of the scene. I just wondered if (and if so, how) you could achieve this in-camera, with two correctly exposed items in a correctly exposed scene.

Oh, and BTW, I have read the manual end to end but it only makes sense if you know what some of this stuff means in the first place.

Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help 08-06-2015, 03:16 AM

K3 Multi exposure triggering
Posted By duetto96

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Views: 1,666

As it happens, I already had one-push bracketing enabled.

My K3 wants me to press the shutter for each exposure so either I have a faulty camera or there is another setting that affects this or I don't understand how multi-exposure is supposed to work. I have read pg 49 and I don't see a reference to any other options to control this (including "one-push bracketing").

The way my camera behaves, it looks like it is deliberately waiting for input after each shot so I imagine it is to enable one to stage the next shot. For example, if you were doing some sort of animation you could take a shot, move figures around, take the next shot and so on. I'm trying to talk myself into my camera behaving as designed.

Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help 08-06-2015, 01:19 AM

K3 Multi exposure triggering
Posted By duetto96

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Views: 1,666

When I select Multiple Exposure from the K3 drive menu, I can select composite mode and the number
of photos to be taken. I can select shutter, timer or remote to trigger that sequence of exposures.

If I configure the camera to say, take 5 exposures, should I be expecting the camera to
rattle off those 5 exposures one after the other following a single press of the shutter or remote,
per the option selected. Or, should I expect to trigger each successive exposure using that method, i.e.
press the shutter or remote after each exposure in the sequence of 5 exposures.

The manual doesn't explain the way it works and I was sort of expecting one trigger to fire all exposures.
Can someone please advise.

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