Nikon D800 Multiple Exposure problem in Aperture

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Nikon D800 Multiple Exposure problem in Aperture

When I shoot multiple exposures with the new Nikon D800, import into Aperture (latest greatest version with all updates up-to-date) the image imported looks NOTHING like what was on the saved/merged image in-camera and appears red-red-red. Shot a bunch last night had issue with every one. Think there might be an overlooked glitch here. Everything else seems to work 100% with D800, but this might be glitch.

So, I wanted to be sure I wasn't seeing things, took the camera to kid's soccer game today to further test, got home and loaded 'em into Aperture, same exact thing. The blown-out ones are the multiple exposures (look perfect in-camera) and as you can see the following photo is as it was shot (non-red ones to the right of the selected 5 that are blow-out examples.)

Posted on Apr 14, 2012 1:57 PM

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Answer 1

Apr 14, 2012 7:40 PM in response to Mackguyflorida

With what exact settings are you shooting these multiple exposures? What card (brand, speed) are they being written to?

I have a D800, shoot only RAW, but not multiple exposures, if I am understanding what you are doing.

Ernie

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Answer 2

Apr 14, 2012 8:41 PM in response to Ernie Stamper

These were shot as multiple exposures in camera....will have to go see if it was Raw, or if it was one of those things like the HDR setting where you can't shoot RAW for in-camera HDR (obviously could be done in post).

The issue isn't the camera, it's doing it's job fine.....can bring same image into Nikon software no problem, just appears to be glitch in aperture and only with multiple exposure images, all others work fine.

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Answer 3

Apr 16, 2012 12:35 PM in response to Mackguyflorida

Here's the EXIF data from one of the problem photos.....I can't be the only person taking multiple exposure photos!

Anyone from Apple have any suggestions?

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Answer 4

Apr 16, 2012 1:12 PM in response to Mackguyflorida

My guess would be that the multiple exposure mode is Nikon magic dust, and the Aperture raw converter does not understand the propietary Nikon EXIF data to handle it.

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Answer 5

Apr 16, 2012 1:17 PM in response to Mackguyflorida

If I can be sure of exactly how you did this multi-exposures, I can try to duplicate and test.

What you see in the camera is only a thumbnail in temporary use, and not a rendering of the file that will be imported into Aperture. If you put the card in a reader, and open with the Finder, drag these images into a regular folder, you can test what Preview will display of them.

Ernie

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Answer 6

Apr 16, 2012 2:48 PM in response to Ernie Stamper

I don't think it's magic dust and it's definitely been used for more than 100 years....there aren't Multiple photos, it's 1 photo exposed multiple times with and end net of 1 photo. This is NOT like HDR where you have multiple photos at different EV and merge, this is 1 photo and shutter actuated on SAME photo multiple times. In other words, there is no "series" of photos to look at....1 photo. Cannot understand why Aperture is having stuch a problem with this when it didn't have the problem with D700 files.

Multiple Exposure Examples below.

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Answer 7

Apr 16, 2012 3:00 PM in response to Mackguyflorida

I was confused by the multiple frames in your first post. I did not realize that each of them (or at least some of them) was itself a multi-exposure photo.

Does the frame rate limits on the D800 not impact numerous multi-exposures?

I will try to test as time and situation permits.

Ernie

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Answer 8

Apr 16, 2012 3:11 PM in response to Mackguyflorida

Are the multi exposed images RAW, JPG or something else?

If RAW you need to look at the master image in something like Preview to see if the problem is in Aperture or in the raw converter.

Import an image using Image Capture or else drag it off the card if you use a card reader and then open it in Preview. If it looks the same then the problem is the raw converter and not Aperture. If it looks ok then the problem is Aperture.

If it is JPG again look at it before importing into Aperture.

Finally if it is something else let us know.

regards

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