circaphotos Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 Hey everyone I was wondering if there is any way to make a double exposure through the camera on a canon 30d. I know that you can on the elan 7e because I was able to do it on my old camera, but with the 30d i can't find out how to do it anywhere and i would rather not just do it in photoshop. thank you, aj Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobatkins Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 You can't. You have to do it in Photoshop. Actually, with digital, there's no reason not to use Photoshop for double exposures, even if you could do it "in-camera". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
les Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 About the only way I can think of would be to set the camera to Bulb exposure, use very high F-number (small aperture), and use flash. This way you could open the shutter, fire the flash manually, cover the lens, move to the next scene, uncover the lens, fire the flash again...just speculating, but it should be possible - I will give it a go today and check it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnson_d. Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 "...i would rather not just do it in photoshop" Why? It seems to me that Photoshop would be much easier and provide for much more control over the result. I'm curious about what you are trying to do that would not make this the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgpix Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 I agree that it's quite simple to do it in Photoshop - but an obvious barrier is the need to own a multi-hundred dollar piece of software! It might be more difficult to achieve in digital camera than in a film one due to the nature of the actual image...? Perhaps overlaying 1s and 0s in a relatively low processing power piece of hardware is a problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
les Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 BTW, Picture Window will do the combination of two images with no problem at a fraction of the price (plus lots of other goodies there) so you could try PW, I guess... Of course PW is not "the latest and greatest" and does not look as flashy as for instance Lightroom, but it is a damn good piece of software AFAIAC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
virginia sustarsic Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 Photoshop Elements is fairly inexpensive and can do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
circaphotos Posted March 14, 2007 Author Share Posted March 14, 2007 Yeah i downloaded photoshop but all this registering crap is impossible to keep it on your computer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobatkins Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 Tens of thousands of photographers have no problem keeping PhotoShop on their computer. If you have a legal, licensed version, you shouldn't have either. You can find cheap, or even free, software to combine images. You don't need full blown PhotoShop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mormegil Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 Gimp or Gimpshop will do. If you want to emulate a true double exposure, create a new layer with the blend mode set to screen. That's mathematically the same thing as a double exposure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christy_church Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 "Screen" blend mode works great in Photoshop, just like a camera double exposure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert_hamilton6 Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 the upside to doing it right in the camera (which nikons have the option to do) is you can see it right then and there on the lcd when your doing something that is specific to a persons position you dont want to have to go back and reshoot because your relize later in photoshop that the images arent exactly lining up. (and i say this from expirience as i cursed the heavens after seeing a nikon user do this) =^_^= Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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