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Using auto exposure bracketing

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Using auto exposure bracketing

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Bracketing is the process of shooting the same scene with different exposures to improve your chances of going home with a shot that's correctly metered. You might also use bracketing, though, when you're shooting a scene with a lot of dynamic range, so that you go home with at least one properly exposed image of all of the different bright and dark bits in your scene. You can use the Mark III's auto bracketing feature in Program mode, either priority mode, or Manual mode, and of course, you can build it into any custom modes that you define. I'm going to go ahead and set up an auto bracketing sequence here. I'm going to hit the Menu button. On the second page of my shooting menu, the very first item is Exposure comp./AEB. AEB stands for auto exposure bracketing. I have this little readout here that shows how this tool is currently configured. So I'm going to hit the Set button, and I get this thing. There are two things you can do from this screen; you can set exposure compensation…

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