Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, 14 May 2008 14:18:52 -0400, Jim Charter wrote:
> 
>> Jim Henderson wrote:
>>> They look good to me - like Warp, I like the feel of the second photo
>>> in particular.  The night photo is interesting, but the light in the
>>> windows is "blooming" a bit too much - I wonder if there's a good way
>>> to control that, though, without making the rest of the photo too dark.
>>>  Might almost be best to use exposure bracketing and composite the
>>> pictures together.
>> Cool idea, I expect to be doing a fair number of the night shots.
> 
> IIRC, I've read about some newer cameras that will do an exposure bracket 
> in a single shot; I know there are some that will also write to dual 
> formats simultaneously, so you can have raw data and jpeg data; if your 
> camera does raw captures (which usually does require manual settings IME, 
> though - which may not work well for your situation), that would give you 
> a lot more flexibility in fine-tuning the exposure settings as part of 
> post-processing.
> 
> Jim

A quick googling says the A30 doesn't shoot in RAW format. There might 
be a firmware hack somewhere, but it seems this is the main Pentax 
camera, and if none of them have RAW capabilities then it isn't likely 
this one would either.

I would be surprised if it did not have some way to automatically shoot 
bracketed exposures. Google again says it can shoot +-0.3 to +-2 
exposures automatically, somewhere in the drive menu options. Even if 
you don't composite the images, using that will make it easier to get 
the right exposure if you are just clicking off pictures.

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