Extended Bracket

Okay, I sort of know what this does on my K20d but not really seen any great explanations of it. When I first heard of it I assumed it was pseudo HDR which blended 3 exposures, however looking through the menu, the choices WB, Saturation, Hue, Contrast and Sharpness.
Could anyone explain exactly how you would use this feature?

Thanks

Eliminate the need for ND filters by making several exposures at the same settings (blur waterfalls and eliminate people from street scenes etc).

Make virtually noise-free images by combining several exposures at the same settings (noise is averaged out of the final picture so you can get down to a virtual ISO 8 or thereabouts).

Use red, green and blue filters on a scene that has both stationary and moving objects over 3 exposures for some funky effects (thanks Don for that one!).

Introduce ghostly images of yourself into any scene (one of my faves!).

Combining different exposures can give a pseudo-HDR result (probably not its strongest suit though).

Storyboard movement (in continuous shooting mode).

And many, many more!

It's one of my favourite features actually.

I'm new round these parts & apologise if you've posted some already, but I'd love to see examples of the 2 techniques I've quoted & a brief how-to if it's not too much trouble

So would I.

Hefty
Thanks for the in depth explanation.
Howver Im not sure Im quite with you, are you not referring to Multiple exposure mode? All extended appears to do to me is give slight variation over several exposures in WB or contrast or hue etc.

Or maybe Im just confused

You're not confused Steve, it's me...

I misread your original post and I was talking about multiple exposures, not extended bracketing - sorry!

Extended bracketing allows you to bracket certain settings (like WB, contrast, etc) in much the same way you'd normally bracket exposure settings. Only useful if you shoot JPEG and want to be able to choose the "best" picture from a selection post capture; if you're shooting RAW then you can make an almost infinite number of variations from the one original file. Hope that clears that up!

For those who wanted a multi-exposure how-to I'll gather some pictures together and make a seperate thread showing some of the tricks you can do. You may have to wait a day or two though...

Bracket:arrow: Is when used, three shots, One under exposure, One at normal exposure, and One over exposure mainly used if one is not sure of the correct exposure.

And Hefty got to the extended bit first.

Yes please!

Looking forward to them.

Thanks Hefty, explanation now understood