HDR and bracketing??

ok im a totally noob so forgive me if this is stupid question,i have a 60d and i recently installed magic lantern on it as i wanted to try some HDR photos with photo matix,things worked great and I'm happy with everything now my question is if cameras can do bracketed shots already that the user can set the ev why do u need to install a hack software like magic lantern,is there a difference in bracketing in camera as apposed to magic lantern,i know magic will allow more shots than 3 so is that the only difference,thanx

I'm not too familiar with magic lantern, but it isn't needed at all to bracket exposures for HDR post-processing in software such as Photomatix. Even with the 3-shot limitation with many Canon cameras, it is easy to get more than three: https://www.youtube.co​m/watch?v=64CxiNqfZ_U

I had ML on my 60D and this is what i remember (from 2 years ago).

ML lets you choose more shots (brackets) than the standard Canon menu. which is just 3.
ML also lets you fire off all the shots by using just one press of the shutter button. IIR the only way to do this without ML is to use the timer or hold the shutter button down.
There might be other reasons but i didnt use this part of ML much so never really got stuck in.

ML will "auto bracket" for you.

With the traditional bracketing approach you would still need to make sure that your darkest exposure was capturing all the shadows and that the brightest was capturing the highlights.

With ML you turn on the auto hdr, fire off your "normal" exposure and ML will take as many exposures as is needed to capture the full dynamic range. just combine in your favourite HDR programme.

Darren

ML also has an option to bracket by varying the ISO. I don't think any camera will do this.

tzalman wrote in post #16810490
ML also has an option to bracket by varying the ISO. I don't think any camera will do this.

I think Olympus do ISO bracketing..

D4rr3n wrote in post #16810267
With the traditional bracketing approach you would still need to make sure that your darkest exposure was capturing all the shadows and that the brightest was capturing the highlights.

Other way round The darkest exposure is to make sure there is one shot where none of the hghighlights are blown out and the brightest exposure is to make sure the shadows are exposed "correctly" (or at least capture sufficient detail with low noise) in at least one shot.