HDR Photography

Dear Nikon,

I represent a huge multitude of HDR photographers on my photoblog at http://www.stuckincustoms.com . I've been lucky enough to meet many of them in different parts of the world to shoot. Most of us shoot with Nikon, and we all share the common woes:

- With high-end cameras, we'd like the autobracketing to do -2, 0, +2, instead of requiring 5 shots at -2, -1, 0, +1, +2. How this simple thing is not configurable is beyond all of us.
- For all these exposures, we want the mirror to stay locked up. There's no need for it to flip up and down with every shot. This isn't some da Vinci mechanical device.
- We like to just press the button once, then have it take all the exposures.
- We would like to have a timer that lets us press the button then just wait 1 or 2 seconds (for the button-touch to stop the camera shake), and then take all the exposures.
- We would like the features above to be in a macro mode, each of which are configurable. My friend Valerio in Italy might like 7 exposures with a 5 second button delay -- my friend KrisKros in LA might like 3 exposures with no delay -- my friend Ben on a bus might like to take 9 exposures with no delay and constant mirror-lockup while hanging backwards off a pink caddy... We know all of this stuff is right there in the software, so please open up the options and let us assign cascading choices in a macro.

On behalf of frustrated HDR photographers around the world,
Trey Ratcliff