116Menu Guide—The Shooting MenuVarying Settings Automatically: Auto BracketingIn some situations, you may find it difficult to se-lect appropriate exposure-compensation andwhite-balance settings, and yet not have time tocheck the results and adjust settings after eachshot. Auto bracketing can be used to vary thesesettings automatically over a series of photographs,“bracketing” a selected exposure-compensationor white-balance setting.OffSelect Off to restore normal exposure and white balance.OnThe camera varies exposure with each shot; thenumber of shots in each sequence and the amountof exposure compensation performed are selectedfrom the sub-menu shown at right. Bracketing isperformed by varying shutter speed (A and Mmodes), aperture (S mode), or shutter speed andaperture (P mode). No bracketing is performed ifthe amount of exposure compensation would ex-ceed the limits of the camera’s exposure system.Bracketing orderExposure incrementNo. of shots0, +0.3, –0.3±1/ 3 EV0, +0.7, –0.7±2/ 3 EV3, ±0.7 30, +1.0, –1.0±1 EV3, ±1.0 30, +0.7, +0.3, –0.3, –0.7±1/ 3 EV5, ±0.3 50, +1.3, +0.7, –0.7, –1.3±2/ 3 EV5, ±0.7 50, +2.0, +1.0, –1.0, –2.0±1 EV5, ±1.0 53, ±0.3 3Option
