Rant

Seems to me I remember threads in the past made up of complaints. Well here's another.
Yesterday's shoot was important enough that I decided to bracket my shots. I usually don't, depending on my ability to meter properly and the latitude of Raw, but yesterday's stuff will be printed 20 by 30 inches so I wanted to maximize my chances of keeping noise down. The problem - every time I changed lenses the bracket was cancelled. What a pain in the butt! This was with a 350/XT. Do other models do the same?
Canon, this is really stupid. I imagine there are many people who bracket all the time. I probably would if I shot Jpg. They have to repeatedly reset it?
Elie

My best guess off the top of my head is that since the XT is commonly referred to as a "beginner's" dslr, that they're figuring that when a beginner switches lenses, they'll forget that they had the bracket set. They accounted for that. I don't have my 20D's yet, or I'd tell you if they did it too.

20D manual - page 85 - AEB is cancelled if you power off, change lens, replace the CF card, etc....

Well, there you have it. It was just a theory. -_-

Is there not a custom function on the 350D to get around this.... ??

The 10D has a custom function where you can set it to stay in bracket mode even if you shut the camera off, change lenses, etc.... It's C,Fn-09 on the 10D.. It works for both exposure and white balance bracketing... The 350D may not have it, I can't believe the 20D is missing this feature..

20D - page 143 - C.Fn-09 - 3: -,0,+/Disable(Auto cancel works only if the flash is ready)...Can you tell me what that means?

Trial and error. If C.Fn-09 is set to the above settings the AEB is maintained after power off or lens removal unless the flash is readied....

Very nice shots. Thanks for sharing.

OK, what am I missing here?

Did you just get mysteriously transported over into the Canon EOS section from the Photo Sharing section?

Wow...weird.

350D manual - page 91 - Same message as above

Does the 350D have a C.Fn09 to disable this?

, the problems of browsing with multiple windows.

Would be silly if this can't be a Custom Function, of allowing it to remain, if one of those are changed.

PacAce wrote:
OK, what am I missing here?

Did you just get mysteriously transported over into the Canon EOS section from the Photo Sharing section?

I've had the same thing happen to me a couple of months ago where a reply I made in one thread appeared in another. Some sort of weird gremlin that crops up once in awhile ...

In 350D C.Fn-9 deals with Shutter curtain sync. Near as I can tell, it has no function to disable the reset of bracketing.

Jim