How To Take Multiple Shots In A Self-Timer Style?

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Shyam (Delhi, Bharat) asked : I have gear up my photographic camera settings to take multiple shots in a cocky timer way, but when the pictures is taken, it takes only one shot. What am I doing wrong here?

Hello Shyam! First of all, I found your question footling bit incomplete. Yous didn't mention what are the settings you accept adapted on the camera and under what lighting condition you are taking pictures. Sometimes, even if your camera settings are right, because of the available lights or not enough time to recycle the flash power or many other variables, you may not get the effect you want. If y'all are shooting in a bright daylight, all you take to do is make sure that the camera is fix to continuous (burst) shooting mode and the focus is being tracked and locked if the subject is moving. If you are shooting in a dark night and using an external flash unit, you might have to bank check couple of other settings as well, which I volition describe flake afterward in this blog. Get-go, lets review the setup steps that demand to exist done on the camera to take multiple shots in a self-timer way.

Camera Settings for a Self-Timer Style

In this blog, I am taking the reference of Nikon D90, but I believe these camera settings are same for almost every other Nikon DSLR camera. It is possible that you might notice the buttons and the menu options in different places, but once y'all get the idea, it won't exist hard to suit the settings no thing which camera brand and model you employ.

Now, lets get into the setup card.

1. Press the Menu button on the back of the photographic camera and go to CSM (Custom Setting Menu).

two. Use the multi-selector button and get to c Timers/AE lock menu.

three. Go to the option c3 and select Self-timer, and yous will see two options inside.

Nikon D90 Self-Timer Mode Menu

Nikon D90 Self-Timer Manner Card

4. First selection, Self-timer filibuster, allows y'all to prepare the time after how many seconds camera should outset taking the pictures, and the bachelor values are 2s, 5s, 10s, 20s.

iv. And the next choice is Number of shots yous desire to accept in a cocky-timer way. You tin can choose between 1 and nine shots.

Nikon D90 Self-Timer Mode

Nikon D90 Self-Timer Fashion

5. Optionally, y'all can also select CL (Continuous Depression) mode shooting speed (1fps, 2fps, 3fps and 4fps) into CSM->Shooting/brandish->d6 (CL mode shooting speed).

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half-dozen. Finally, you have to change the shooting mode into self-timer fashion (with flare-up shooting). You can do then my pressing the button on the top (shown in the pic) and rotating the master command punch while the push is still being pressed. When you meet the burst way with the clock (cocky-timer) icon displayed on the LCD screen, you tin allow become the button and you are all fix.

If you have already done all of these setup on the camera and still not getting multiple shots in a self-timer style, it is time to check your camera's Autofocus Mode. When you are shooting in a burst way, you probably want to use AF-C or AF-A autofocus mode. And if you are shooting in a night night with an external flash on, you lot may not become multiple shots considering of the wink recycle time. Once you take a shot, wink may take a few seconds to recycle itself and get ready for the next shot. Also, if you are shooting with a higher frame rate, 4fps for instance, its difficult to attain that shooting speed with an external flash unit of measurement attached on the camera.

I hope I was able to answer your question, and if you have a follow up question or more than questions, please write back to me. Happy shooting!