Nikon D3100 Bracketing???

[Tas]

Can it be done been speaking to a friend who is a canon nut and he mentioned bracketing. Can this be done on the nikons?

 

[Charlatan]

It can on the D5000 but not sure about yours, its in your shooting settings.

 

[roseway]

The D3100 doesn't have automatic bracketing, but it's easy enough to do it manually of course.

 

[Chappers.]

The reason I didn't chose the D3100 was because it didn't have the auto-bracketing, so I looked at the D5000 instead, but then I realised that it didn't have the in body focusing, so started looking at the D90. The wife prevented me from looking at anything more expensive!

 

[robinb]

The D3100 doesn't have automatic bracketing, but it's easy enough to do it manually of course.

Quite surprised this feature has been missed of it looks a nice camera except for this.

How do you do it manually ?

 

[roseway]

How do you do it manually ?

The obvious way really - put the camera on a tripod and take a number of identical shots with different exposures. You can do this by using manual exposure or exposure compensation.

 

[robinb]

yes but thats not quite the same as doing it automatically, thought there was a better way.

 

[ausemmao]

Yep, only way to do it is to vary the aperture/shutter yourself (so for 1 stop steps, halve shutter speed each step for example) , or use exposure compensation. Thank market segmentation for that :|, though it's only a couple of extra thumb sweeps and clicks.

 

[Dale_tem]

So you need bracketing these days? You can review, zoom in, you can use highlights to highlight problems, look at the historgrams etc.

Exposure Bracketing: I never use this, and no one should. A holdover from the film days, I think it's finally been removed from the D40, hallelujah! Come on people, God gave you a big LCD: use it. Even in film days, Ansel thought bracketing was a crutch for the inept that usually ensures you get the wrong exposure on the one frame with the right gesture.

http://www.kenrockwell.com

Lots of things people do are because that is how they have always been done, tripods are another good example.

People also are complaining that the D3100 can't autofocus the older design lenses, there are equivalent lenses available in the new design. The design changed on lenses in the early 90s and they are finally dropping the feature off the bodies 20 years later.