Multiple Exposures on M8

[daleeman]

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I really do not think this is possible, but brighter minds are on this forum than mine. Way back in my film days…. I used a Leicaflex SL a lot along with a IIIF RD and to do double exposures one would take the slack out of the film rewind crank, wind take the shot, hold the rewind spool/crank, engage the rewind button and then cock the shutter. MOST of the time the film never moved and the shutter was ready to fire again on the same frame.

 

Here in mid-April I will be going back to Hocking County to shootthehills.com to enter into the photo contest where you have 24 hours to shoot in five categories and then 3 hours to raw to JPG convert and hand in your images. NO Photoshop work is admitted, so layers and composites are out.

 

I’m looking to do some multiple images at night by a campfire as one of the submissions with people in it. Beyond the dark bag over the camera on a tripod, or lens cap on Bulb, I wondered if anyone had any other ideas.

 

Lee

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[trs]

Can't think of any other than idea you already have unless if you want to grab a Fuji dSLR. Not sure about other Fuji, but, Fuji S2 Pro does the multiple exposure, that is only camera I know in digital world which has the feature.

[ottocrat]

But... Photoshop composites *are* the digital equivalent of multiple exposures! Seems harsh.

[thinkfloyd]

Can't think of any other than idea you already have unless if you want to grab a Fuji dSLR. Not sure about other Fuji, but, Fuji S2 Pro does the multiple exposure, that is only camera I know in digital world which has the feature.

 

Pentax DSLRs can do multiple exposures too, the K10D and K20D... as for the M8, looks impossible...

[daleeman]

AH the painful truth, the M8 does not do multiple exposures. Somewhere on this BBS is a post call the Old Hat Trick. That too talked about doing open shutter with a cap and then dividing your exposure down to 8 seperate exposures on one shutter cycle.

 

Composits are easy in Photoshop, well kinda, but the shoot the hills competition does not allow anyone to do such. So its in the camera creativity.

 

Can't see going out and purchaing a seperate camera and lens system instead of using the Leica, so... rething the hat trick or come up with new noval ideas.

 

Any other suggestions very welcome.

 

Lee

[SJP]

I miss the multiple exposure feature as well - all other M's had this so it is depressing that Leica did not include this for M8 and higher, we <strike>need</strike> demand an upgrade:D

 

Anyway "the dark bag over the camera on a tripod, or lens cap on Bulb" sounds like fun, you could even consider pinhole or phase plate in the equation depending on the amount of light.

 

Am I right that you have max. 32 seconds to do this....? I have never really explored long exposure time possibilities.