The k-5 manual doesn't explain a lot of things....... On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 7:23 AM, Aahz Maruch <a...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 25, 2013, Brian Walters wrote: >> Quoting Aahz Maruch <a...@pobox.com>: >>>On Tue, Jun 11, 2013, Rob Studdert wrote: >>>> >>>>I got caught out when shooting some panos recently, bracketing in >>>>manual mode my camera would default to bracketing Tv so the aperture >>>>would change to bracket which made stacking images a little more >>>>problematic than I would have liked. >>>> >>>>Just in case you were not aware the remedy to change the bracketing to >>>>Av lies in the "green button" setting of the E-dial programming >>>>whether you have the "green button" active or not. To change it go to >>>>the E-Dial Programming menu for manual and select "TvShift". I found >>>>the solution on-line, the manual was next to useless. >>> >>>I've read this twice and I can't figure out what you're talking about. >>>Mind expanding/explaining? >> >> Allow me. >> >> I played around with my K5 after reading Rob's post and I think I >> understand what he's getting at. >> >> If you have the camera on Manual Exposure and fire off a bracket of >> (say) three images, the camera will hold the shutter speed constant >> and change the aperture for each exposure. >> >> What Rob wanted was to hold the aperture constant and allow the >> shutter speed to change with each exposure. >> >> As he said, you can accomplish this by going to Rec Mode Settings >> menu 5, selecting 'E-Dial Programming Menu 2' and changing the Green >> Button setting for 'M' to Tv Shift. Page 284 of the manual shows >> the available settings, but their use is far from intuitive. > > Interesting. The manual AFAICT (K-5 II) doesn't even explain what > changes during a bracket exposure. I pretty much only used TAv mode > during my cruise rental, which does change the shutter speed (although I > vaguely recall seeing some shots where the aperture and/or ISO changed, > and I have no idea what caused the difference). > > Pentax significantly reorganized the K-5 II manual, it's page 247 there. > -- > Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ > <*> <*> <*> > Help a hearing-impaired person: http://rule6.info/hearing.html > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions.
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