Sorry for the delay in answering Mark C's question on how to do true HDR on the Q. I was not familiar enough with the Q yet to answer off the top of my head. Also, hard to wrap one's head around is how some features are not available when other settings are enabled.
To do true HDR, with a minimum of fuss you first of all need to be shooting RAW or RAW+. Then, the feature you are looking for is Exposure Bracketing. In the menu, you can select the bracketing order (see page 68 of the manual). Exposure bracketing is not available when the capture mode is set to Moving Object, Night Scene HDR, Pet, Kids, HDR (of the SCN mode on the dial). It is also not available when the shutter speed is set to B. It is also not available when HDR Capture is set (since that applies only to the camera's automatically merging 3 shots into a JPEG) Finally, it cannot be used with Interval Shooting or Multi-Exposure. Exposure Bracketing is selected in Drive Mode (icon looks like three rectangles with the +/- one on top. You'll see you have your choice of normal Exposure Bracketing or Exposure Bracketing in combination with the Remote Control. After you have selected which one you want, you can press the DOWNARROW again to select the EV separation between shots (using the dial). You can set up to a +/- 3 EV for your over/under-exposed shots. To cancel the Exposure Bracketing, you just switch back to another drive mode. The only other thing to keep in mind is that whatever AF point is selected in the first exposure will be used in the 2nd and third. I believe this works pretty much like it works on other Pentax DSLRs, except that you are limited to 3 shots where the K-5 gives you the option of 5. (also you get to the drive mode on the K-5 with the UPARROW button, while on the Q it is the RIGHTARROW button. All of this is covered on Pages 80 & 81 of the Q manual. On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Mark C <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for confirming that - I spent some time over the last few days with > the manual and the camera, hoping to do it through the USER settings, which > I can't seem to get to work one way or another. It looks like the Quick dial > only allows customization of the Custom Picture Mode, Digital Filters, and > aspect ratio. > > Mark > > > On 9/8/2012 8:54 PM, Steven Desjardins wrote: >> >> Not that I could work out. I wondered if it could be done by doing >> the smart effect user settings but no such luck. This dial is a nice >> idea but the selections are lousy. This would be a nice firmware >> upgrade. >> >> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- "The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening one's own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination an illusion. It is the other way around." -Thomas Moore, "Original Self" -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
