How To – Exposure Blending

Exposure Blending is a technique for blending multiple exposures of the same scene into a single image.  This technique involves taking several shots of the same scene or subject with different exposures and then fusing these shots into one perfectly or almost perfectly exposed photo.

This tutorial works with Nikon cameras with live view and NCC version 0.7.165 or higher. I don’t find any good example in my house so i used a souvenir. The goal is to make a well exposed image.

Beta release – 0.7.165

Download: http://nikon-camera-control.googlecode.com/files/NCCsetup_0.7.165.exe

Changelog:

• Exposure Status indicator
• Better support for D80 and D300
• Some device handing code rewrote,  this should improve application stability.
• Fixed connection problems for some cameras
• Possibility to use same file name as camera gave to the file, is a option for it in session editor
• Support for Lightroom auto import, for this option to work, in the settings the option Auto preview, should be disabled.
• Minor changes in exposure bracketing window

How To – Report bug

Lately i get a lot of bug reports, so i decided to make a post about how i want to looks like this report.
So:

• avoid to generalize the error, post exact what not working like: live view, bracketing, take photo,  the camera not connecting
• specify the used operation system (and the service pack if is installed)
• specify the version of application, this information can be found in about window title.
• step by step description, how i can reproduce the error
• the most important attache to the post the log file
• optional, you can attache some screen shot too

This reports can be posted on  https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!categories/ncc-google-group/bug-report  or send me directly a email.

The log file can be found by opening setting windows, there is the button for "Locate log file" after pressing this button a explorer windows will be open and the log file will be selected.

Beta release – 0.7.153

Download: http://nikon-camera-control.googlecode.com/files/NCCsetup_0.7.153.exe
Changelog:

• the code behind of camera handing rewrote 
• basic multiple camera support
• some minor bug fixes
• better error handing and logging 
• check on startup if wia activex is installed

I start to support multiple connected cameras, in File menu you can selected the default camera and in view menu is a window for capture pictures with all connected cameras in same time.

I plan to make a separated standalone library with camera control part code, this library can be used in other applications, but i will see if is demand for it.

Lately i get a lot of error reports, but to fix this i need more infos, like program version (pls. use latest version), os version and describe how to reproduce the error and the most important attache the log file.