p.1 #1Olympus OM-5 ii. How to get single press and multiple exposure bracketing shots after time delay?
I'm new to the M43 and the OM camera system. I'm use to Canon menus and functions in which I can shoot in Manual mode where one press of the shutter button starts the preset delay and the camera then does multiple exposure bracketed shots one after the other.
After many hours, I can't find the equivalent function on this OM-5 ii camera. AE BKT requires holding the shutter button down or multiple presses, one for each exposure, but it locks out the time delay function. Touching or holding the shutter causes too much shaking.
HDR mode will shoot the bracketed exposures but with fixed delta EV=2 but still locks out the initial time delay.
I've tried using the Custom time delay combined with AE BKT but again the drive is forced to only sequential and no time delay option.
So what am I missing here? I would appreciate any list of setting steps or even a settings file to download.
Thank you.
p.1 #2Olympus OM-5 ii. How to get single press and multiple exposure bracketing shots after time delay?
Responding to myself. It's not possible to do both a delay plus the bracketed shots with one shutter button press. I wish I knew this before buying this camera as it makes it less useful for me.
p.1 #3Olympus OM-5 ii. How to get single press and multiple exposure bracketing shots after time delay?
I remember my Canon 5D’s used to do that. I always used a cable release then, and still do with my OM cameras. Either a wired or wireless release will solve it.
I assume you’re already on a tripod, so why not just get a wired release? They’re only a few bucks. And if you have one for you Canon, it will work with the OM, same micro-plug. The wireless release is expensive and hard to find.
Every camera has upsides and downsides. You can either choose to be disappointed and let it sour your experience, or you can solve the problem in a different way. No two camera systems work the same.
When I ditched Canon for LUMIX back in 2012, the differences were overwhelming, but the advantages were worth the steep learning curve, and some things just didn’t translate. I adapted. Same when I switched to OM cameras from LUMIX, huge learning curve for the AF and certain things that I relied on with LUMIX that just didn’t happen in the OM cameras. Again, I adapted.