Nikon Bug
Jan 19, 2019 09:18:26 #
petego4it
Loc: NY
Warning for Nikon users. Nikon's provide settable bracketing of course. If you fail to finish a bracket sequence and turn off the camera, it inexplicably without warning and unpredictably as to amount, changes exposure compensation (the + or minus). This stays "adjusted" until you put it back to zero or whatever value you wish. Happened to me on D500, D750 and D850. Solution is to be sure you finish a bracket sequence and also check the compensation level every time you turn on the camera. Annoying IMO.
Jan 19, 2019 09:21:38 #
Jan 19, 2019 09:42:29 #
petego4it wrote:
Warning for Nikon users. Nikon's provide settable ... (show quote)
Why would anyone use bracketing and NOT finish the sequence????
If you instruct the camera to do something, it will do it, simple.
Jan 19, 2019 09:46:24 #
Jan 19, 2019 09:51:02 #
petego4it wrote:
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I don't think it's a bug, I think that's the way the cameras were designed. In the User's Manual for both my Nikon Df and Nikon D7200 it states, under bracketing, that to cancel bracketing press the BKT button and rotate the main command dial until the bracketing sequence is zero and the bracketing icon is no longer displayed.
Jan 19, 2019 10:02:17 #
I've done that because I lost track of how many shots I've done in a bracketing sequence. I have to get back on track when I resume shooting.
Jan 19, 2019 10:46:36 #
petego4it wrote:
Warning for Nikon users. Nikon's provide settable ... (show quote)
This is not a bug but simply the way the system was designed to ensure that you got all of the shots you wanted. It's always our responsibility to set our cameras correctly for the next shoot. Perhaps you need to design a "cheat sheet" checklist and look at it each time you go out on a shoot. I'm always considering doing that but just never have. I keep trying to get in the habit of re-setting all dials to a standard setting after each shoot and to check for battery life and that their is really a card in the slot.
Jan 19, 2019 10:57:08 #
I don't think it's a bug but then if I need to bracket I do it manually and never use the autobraketing feature.
Jan 19, 2019 11:18:58 #
larryepage
Loc: North Texas area
Yes...it is by design. Some functions automatically reset upon power off (like changes to default exposure pairs in any of the automatic modes), but some do not (Exposure Compensation and Bracketing, for example) do not. That's why the manual is your friend.
Jan 20, 2019 05:48:09 #
Jan 20, 2019 05:59:01 #
MT Shooter wrote:
Why would anyone use bracketing and NOT finish the sequence????...
Some cameras will finish the sequence automatically but with some you have to hold down the shutter release until the sequence is finished. If you got used to a camera that finishes the sequence automatically and then went on to a camera where that didn't happen, you could get caught out. Apart from that, it's an easy slip-of-the-mind to forget that you need to keep the shutter release pressed down till the end of the sequence.
Jan 20, 2019 06:25:57 #
petego4it wrote:
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I don't know about the "annoying" part. I do, at times use the bracketing option on my Nikon. I revert back to whatever mode I was in when I was finished.
Jan 20, 2019 06:47:26 #
MT Shooter wrote:
Why would anyone use bracketing and NOT finish the sequence????
Earthquake, mugging, coughing fit, heart attack, etc.
Jan 20, 2019 07:21:52 #
Mac wrote:
I don't think it's a bug, I think that's the way the cameras were designed. In the User's Manual for both my Nikon Df and Nikon D7200 it states, under bracketing, that to cancel bracketing press the BKT button and rotate the main command dial until the bracketing sequence is zero and the bracketing icon is no longer displayed.
Jan 20, 2019 07:27:38 #
billnikon
Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont
petego4it wrote:
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WHY, would anyone deliberately end a bracketing sequence by shutting down the camera. Once a person has given the camera a command, why would anyone then shut down the camera before the camera has finished the command. That is not normal behavior, especially when repeating the same on the other two Nikon camera's.
Why not drop them into a lake and then see if they still work to test the seals. Or better yet, why not drop them 5 feet to test their impact worthiness.
This story could be used on a Cleveland Radio show I once listened to called "knuckleheads in the news".
This story did bring a smile to this old face this morning. Can't wait until this guy tries some thing else. Hope he continues to post on his photographic misadventures.
PS, the only BUG in this story is the one stuck in this guys head.
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