Triple shots - why????

smelltheglove

I want to run something by some brains here. I had a boxing fight night last night and my camera played up on me. I managed to get a few good ones but display just wasnt working right.

Anyway when I got home and got time to sit I realised that my camera had taken 3 of every pic. There is no difference in exposure or movement at all, 3 exact files of one picture. The first maybe 10 / 20 pics were single shots then all of a sudden triple. It has gone to and from since. I dont know why this can be happening, I can't think of any setting that might have been changed to cause it but it does seem to come when the camera is at a high ap.

stcstc

sounds like you had bracketing turned on without any gap between the brackets

smelltheglove

Dodgy thought that too. My bracketing seemed ok but I suppose when I checked it had gone back to norm. I must keep a constant eye on it now.

AnCatDubh

Can't remember what camera you are shooting with Rachel, but has it a hard control to turn on bracketing which you may accidently triggered and then possibly cancelled after a power off / inactivity (if there was a break between bouts?). The thing about it being consistently 3 suggests bracketing all right. I mean if you had varying numbers you might have strayed into continuous shooting or the like. On the other hand, the fact that you noticed it playing up could have meant it was doing weird things on its own. Very strange.

Hehe - when i read the start of a post i thought you were in a boxing fight(!) - i thought 'now there's the dark horse for ya!'

quilmore

are they all the same extension? could be some kind of JPG+RAW?
how files with same pictures differ? are they the same number or different?
I'm curious...

AnCatDubh

by the way - how did the shots turn out?

I'm assuming an indoor poor lighted venue with no use of flash(?) - how did it go for you?

Borderfox

I would be very wary of gear acting up, you cant have anything like this happen when you are on a job. It sounds like a bracket error or an itchy trigger finger

5uspect

Usualy flicking a canon off and back on resets the bracketing setting to single shot. Perhaps a good idea to do this if you find you forget to turn it off normally.

Borderfox

What camera was it with?

smelltheglove

It's a Konica Minolta 5d. I turned on and off a few times. All the exact same shots, I had on continuous shooting but I didnt get one continuous shot. ith the speed of boxing 3 shots in 1 sec would be quite different. All exactly the same, exactly the same file type but all different file numbers. Went home took a few pics that were ok then it started again.

I am in need of a new camera so I just have to start working towards this.

Shots turned out ok. I'll upload a couple soon as I've gone through them all. There were 13 fights in all and I got at least one in each fight that I like enough. The first 2 would only have one all others would have more. Poor lads spent a lot of the time on the floor. Dirty fighters;)

shepthedog

That is weird.. As mentioned already sounds like bracketing, but I dont have a clue about Minoltas..

I would sit down and go through each setting, shooting mode, ISO, timer, everything and revert is all back to how you normally shoot..
Its so easy to make a settings change accidentally or make one and forget about it..

quilmore

in nikons white balance bracketing will take 1 picture and will save "x" files with different settings, thus exactly same exposure but different PP to each one
may be some other PP bracketing will do the same, WB is the only I know