Steve Fines
Member
Hello,
I was going to try some star trails last night with the M9 and frustrated as even with the Bulb setting and cable release the shutter kept closing at 250 sec.
I assumed that the cable slipped, that I had accidentally hit it, etc., until about the third time.
Digging out the manual the long exposure limit with this camera is listed as 240 sec.
I could live with a short break to write the file and then doing another 240s exposure, except there isn't a way (that I've found) to turn off the dark frame subtraction.
So it seems that this camera is limited to a 4 minute exposure. The "B" on the exposure dial strikes me as a touch misleading.
Any idea why that would be the case? Any ideas to get around it? Sorry if this was all hashed out when the M8 came out, but I missed that discussion.
thanks,
I was going to try some star trails last night with the M9 and frustrated as even with the Bulb setting and cable release the shutter kept closing at 250 sec.
I assumed that the cable slipped, that I had accidentally hit it, etc., until about the third time.
Digging out the manual the long exposure limit with this camera is listed as 240 sec.
I could live with a short break to write the file and then doing another 240s exposure, except there isn't a way (that I've found) to turn off the dark frame subtraction.
So it seems that this camera is limited to a 4 minute exposure. The "B" on the exposure dial strikes me as a touch misleading.
Any idea why that would be the case? Any ideas to get around it? Sorry if this was all hashed out when the M8 came out, but I missed that discussion.
thanks,