Okay, can someone please tell me what I did.

[NV Whino]

I've done in-camera double exposures before with film cameras, but not with digitals. I have no idea how I got this in-camera double exposure. No, I wasn't anywhere near a window. Although i had the camera set for multiple shots, that's not what I did here. These are two distinct sunflowers, and I had to move the camera (and me), refocus and shoot so they were not shot in quick succession.

[NYC_SKP]

1. Wow!

I have no idea!

[Pharaoh]

2. Nice!

sometimes my best shots are just a gift. Consider it a gift

[NV Whino]

6. Definitely a nifty gift

i'd love to duplicate it on demand.

[Locut0s]

3. My guess....

Software or hardware glitch. Could be a bug in the software or somehow the image sensor maintained an after image of the previous shot? Otherwise I have no idea :p Neat effect though even if it is a mistake.

[alfredo]

5. My first thought was reform/reset.

[alfredo]

4. Maybe you accidentally set your camera to do double exposures.

[NV Whino]

7. I don't think I can do that.

I'll have to dig out the manual.

[alfredo]

8. Good idea. I've had my camera for years and I'm still thumbing through the manual.

[NV Whino]

9. Well by George, I can do it.

It's called, duh, multiple exposure. I was mucking around trying to set the camera to black and white to shoot photos for a yoga book and must have turned this setting on somehow.

The black and white, by the way, was a bust. Yeah, it showed B&W in the viewer and the thumbnails, but (because I was shooting RAW, I guess) when I imported into Photoshop they imported in color. So much for saving a step in the processing.

[alfredo]

11. I had to learn that too. I don't mind converting in PP.

I shot a roll of color film this weekend. I can't wait to see how they turned out.

[JohnnyRingo]

13. I wish my Olympus would do that.

I purposely scanned replies for the solution, hoping it was possible.
I really like that image.

[ManiacJoe]

15. Raw files and 3rd party software don't play nice most of the time.

There are lots of settings in raw files that third-party software, including all the Adobe software, does not read. The b&w flag in the raw file is just that, a flag. The picture image in the raw file is always color. However, the imbedded JPG will have all the camera settings baked into it.

One advantage to using the b&w setting on the camera is that you get a good idea of what the image will look like in b&w immediately so that you can adjust any exposure settings as needed during the shoot.

One down side to the camera's b&w conversion is that it is normally a poor conversion. You will get much better results when doing the conversion in your post-processing.

[NV Whino]

17. You're right

Being able to see the exposure in B&W was a plus. I had hoped to save the work of converting over 300 photos, though. But, it wasn't too bad. I set up a batch script and watched a movie on my iPad while I processed 8 at a time.

[elleng]

10. NO idea, don't do digital (yet,)

but reminds me of a 'great' one I did about 27 years ago. Old, great Nikon SLR.\

Visiting my folks in Florida with 10-11 month old daughter. She took her first steps, I shot some pics, and continued during the visit. Brought roll home to develop and WTH, we said???!!! Clearly a 'hardware' or mechanical problem: EVERY shot I took on that roll was developed IN A SINGLE FRAME!!! 27x exposure! Can still spend HOURS studying that one 'pic,' and discovering new shots each time!

Thanks for the memory!!!

[Mira]

12. I don't care how you did it

I just want what you're having. It's plain gorgeous.

All kidding aside, I think you figured out, as I read this thread, what happened. Experiment with it!

[Joe Shlabotnik]

14. Whatever spirit possessed your camera

has a great sense for composition.

[ManiacJoe]

16. Good to see that you found the settings.

All of my cameras will do multiple exposures, but I have never actually attempted it.

[Richard D]

18. A rather serendipitous error!

[Solly Mack]

19. I have some like that but I did it on purpose.

I like it!