Konica Minolta 5D Instruction Manual

Bracketing is a method of taking a series of images of a static subject in which each image has a
slight variation in exposure. Exposure and flash brackets can be made.

Compose the picture as described in the basic recording section (p. 28). As the bracket is made,
the index marks disappear from the Ev scale to show the remaining frames. When making a
continuous-advance bracket, if the shutter button is release before the bracket is completed, the
bracket resets. If using continuous AF or Auto AF with moving subjects (p. 58), the camera focuses
between each exposure. 

When exposure brackets are made in S exposure mode, the aperture controls the bracket. In A and
M exposure modes, the shutter speed controls the bracket; in M mode, pressing the AEL button
during the bracket changes the exposure control to the aperture. The camera uses both the
aperture and shutter speed control the bracket in P and auto recording.

0.3 Ev bracket

0.7 Ev bracket

Flash bracket: 0.7 Ev

Exposure bracket: 0.3 Ev

Select continuous-advance bracketing or single-frame advance bracketing and the bracketing
increment with the drive-mode selection screen (p. 50). Continuous-advance bracketing creates a
successive series of three images automatically when the shutter-release button is pressed and
held. The shutter-release button must be pressed for each exposure when using single-frame
advance bracketing. The greater the increment, the greater the difference among the images. When
selected, the number of frames and the bracketing increment is displayed on the Ev scale. The
bracketing order can be set in section 2 of the recording menu (p. 80).

Continuous-advance bracketing

Single-frame advance bracketing

Bracketing indicator

Bracketing increment in Ev (p. 69)

To make a flash bracket, raise the camera flash; the ambient exposure is not bracketed. Only single-
frame advance flash brackets can be made regardless of the specified mode; press the shutter-
release button for each exposure. The built-in flash recharges between exposures. Exposure
brackets are made when the flash is down.

White-balance bracketing creates three images from a single exposure in which each image has a
slight variation in color temperature. For more on white balance, see page 64.

Select the appropriate white-balance bracketing drive mode with the drive-mode selection screen
(p. 50). The low white-balance bracket uses an approximate 10 mired shift from the normal balance.
The high white-balance bracket uses an approximate 20 mired shift from the normal balance. 

Compose and take the picture as described in the basic recording section (p. 28). When the
exposure is made, the camera automatically creates two other images with the appropriate shift in
white balance. 

Low white-balance bracket 

High white-balance bracket