Extended Bracket Menu grayed out

Hi,

I have a Pentax K20D and in the Rec Mode Menu the Extended Bracket item is grayed out. Does anyone know how to turn it on?

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Rbubbly

I'm guessing you might have the mode dial set to the "green" mode? In this mode some of the more manual features of the camera are not available to you. Switch to one of the other modes such as "P" and you should find it is selectable.

Select it in the menu and then press Right on the control wheel. This will pull up the selection menu. You can then enter the bracketing amount.

Guys he means the Extended Bracket not the Exposure Bracketing
The Extended Bracket only works with JPG and not with RAW, that is the problem I believe.
If you shoot in RAW, Extended Bracket is useless since the saturation, sharpness, contrast and white balance can be adjusted on the computer without any quality lost.

I can not get to it. When I scroll down to the menu Extended Bracket it jumps over it.

Rbubbly

He means the exposure bracketing button on the left side of the viewfinder, press that and keep it press and you see in the top LCD the bracketing values, you can chance the exposure spacing with the front E-dial and the number of shots (3 or 5) with the back E-dial.

When I press the Menu button you can see right away that the Extended Bracket and Muili-exposure are both grayed out. I can go from RAW file format to Interval Shooting never being able to stop at Extended Bracket and Muili-exposure.

Rbubbly

rbubbly, what is your mode dial set to. I've tried this myself and in green mode the option is greyed out as you describe. In other modes, it is selectable.

Anvh - I beg to differ. Rbubbly did in fact say "Extended bracket" and that is the option I'm talking about. I am shooting in RAW and i can select it but not in green mode.

I just switched from Green Mode to P and now I can set Extended Bracket.

Thanks for your help......

Rbubbly

He states that it was in Rec. Mode, not on the back of the camera.

Glad you got it sorted Rbubbly.

He states that it was in Rec. Mode, not on the back of the camera.

Glad you got it sorted Rbubbly. [/quote]Yep I stand corrected and also too Ross
I was somewhere else with my head

But rbubbly, it might be better just to use RAW instead of using Extended Bracket, it gives you far more option and you can adjust those things far more prciesly and indefinently if you keep saving it in a RAW file

No worries Stefan. I agree re: RAW. I always shoot in RAW - it gives you so much more freedom.

I would like to thank all of you for your help. When I get some good HDRI photos I will upload them. I have not tried RAW yet. As soon as I get the HDRI under my belt I will give it a try. I only have my K20D less than a month. Still checking out all the fuctions.

Back of my camera in P mode
link

Thanks
Rbubbly

I've had my K20D for less than two weeks and I'm itching to get more time to play with it. It seems to be a fantastic bit of kit and I'm so glad I upgraded from my K100D (which my other half has now inherited much to their delight!)

Have fun and looking forward to seeing some cracking shots.

For HDR photos you need to make multiple shots, with that you don't use Extended bracketing but Exposure bracketing so the button on the left side of your view finder.

With Extended bracketing the camera record 3 jpgs with differend settings for saturation, sharpness, contrast or white balance. With RAW file those values aren't lock in the file like with Jpg so you can change them without hurting the image quality.

This a good site to start with link
The first tutorial is very good link I started myself with this one