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[walt@wblady.com]

I selected “Multiple Exposure” in both my Z 7 and D850, and 2 exposures for each of the Overlay Modes - “Add, Average, Lighten and Darken”. My impression of the instructions was that I could see the actual overlay effects in the Z 7 viewfinder. Not so.

 

I could see the two superimposed images alright, but the actual combined image was much different. It seemed that the filter effects are applied to the multiple images AFTER the last shot has been taken, or am I doing something wrong? Would appreciate some advice. Thanks.

[Jerry_]

So far I haven’t used the overlay mode.

What formats are your individual exposures? If Raw then this would be the reason.

The picture having the combined exposures is a JPEG, so the overlay can be added during the in-camera processing.

[walt@wblady.com]

Yes I was shooting in RAW. I'll try jpeg and see how that works. Thanks for the tip.

[walt@wblady.com]

One of the options in Multiple Exposures is using an existing NEF image as the first shot. I tried shooting a jpeg as the second shot and that didn't work. I tried combining two jpegs and that didn't work. It seems that the filter is applied to multiple shots after the last image has been taken. In other words, you can't see the Multiple Exposure filter effects in the viewfinder, as you shoot. Unfortunately, this could hamper the photographer's composition of the final image... especially if you wanted to combined more than two images. Too bad.

[fallout666]

i own Z6 and never tried that and you showing me new things to learn. i hear it works great but never tried it.