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I am really struggling with the metering on the Fuji X100 - to the point where I wonder if my model might be broken.
It has often over exposed frames, but seems to be doing so more than before now, to the point where it is happening on most frames. The extent that they over exposed by is extreme as well with the camera 'whighting' out the frame completely more often than not.
The only good thing is that shooting manually on the X100 is really easy, I normally shoot in Aperture priority so I just have to reach up to the dial at the top and dial in a shooting speed.
I did have the camera set up for Auto ISO, I have now taken this off, (couldn't remember how to do it when hanging precariously off the river bank the other day though).
Any ideas what might be wrong? Is it me, the camera or is the metering really that bad with this model?
Example below.
On a few of occasions I have grossly overexposed shots. Nothing as bad as yours though.
However I found mine to be operator error on two counts...
1)I failing to realise I had the f2 settting on the aperture ring ....and selecting ISO and/or shutter speed outside of the range for the ambient lighting
2) adding to this the exp comp dial wrongly set.
Both of these were lack of attention because the X100 is prone to having its knobs moved getting it out of the case!!
But I am guessing you have discounted these basic possibilities in your checks and the metering method is correct.
So it would suggest a camera problem, like the iris is sticking ?
Have you looked on the X100 forum?
I am not on my desktop (where the link is) so maybe JK can provide the link if you don't know that forum?
Last edited on Sun Apr 22nd, 2012 10:00 by Eric
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