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| Posted: Sun Apr 22nd, 2012 04:00 |
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richw
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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. Attachment: untitled-0772.jpg (Downloaded 60 times)
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| Posted: Sun Apr 22nd, 2012 05:08 |
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Iain
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Theres something not quite right there Rich. I think Eric and Jonathan will be the best ones for this as they both have experience with the X100
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| Posted: Sun Apr 22nd, 2012 08:59 |
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Eric
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richw wrote:I am really struggling with the metering on the Fuji X100 - to the point where I wonder if my model might be broken. 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?
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| Posted: Sun Apr 22nd, 2012 15:05 |
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jk
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That looks suspiciously like an out of range exposure i.e. the ISO is too high and aperture too large/wide open for the shutter speed to accomodate. I have FujiX forums open. http://www.fujix-forum.com/index.php?/forum/3-welcome-to-the-fuji-x-forums/ You might have the SAB sticky apperture blade problem that comes up but I would expect that you would be persistently seeing this with your images. But you do mention that it is happening more frequently so I worry about the SAB. The EV dial issue then may be a possibility. I went through a spate of these over exposed images but I solved it with an O ring around the EV dial. I'll try find the link in a minute but it is a cheap and effective solution. http://www.fujix-forum.com/index.php?/topic/941-o-ring-stiffens-exposure-compensation-dial/page__p__17042#entry17042
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| Posted: Sun Apr 22nd, 2012 18:16 |
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richw
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I have made some poor shots with the EV dial - but on this tree every time I metered on it the whole shot blew out. The Exif shows exposure comp at zero, ISO at 200 and aperture at f11, I had the ISO on auto at this point and camera in Aperture priority at f11. By metering 90 degrees to the left I was able to get a more sensible exposure setting. I had read about the sticking aperture blades, but if I shoot manually it seems to be fine? On one X100 forum post I read however someone had sent their camera back to Fuji to be told this was the issue (apparently common with this camera). He was told it was being fixed and was awaiting return, but also made the comment he had no problem when exposing manually.
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| Posted: Mon Apr 23rd, 2012 02:51 |
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jk
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Hmmm. Not experienced that thankfully. What Firmware version are you using ? I have seen some similar problems reported on v.1.21 I'm busy learning about the XP1 at present and testing out stuff. It is similar but different to the X100 but I am enjoying the fact that I have a 60mm macro lens which is wonderfully sharp. The 35mm f1.4 is as sharp a lens as I have ever used. In fact both are wonderfully sharp.
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| Posted: Mon Apr 23rd, 2012 04:36 |
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Eric
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richw wrote: I have made some poor shots with the EV dial - but on this tree every time I metered on it the whole shot blew out. The Exif shows exposure comp at zero, ISO at 200 and aperture at f11, I had the ISO on auto at this point and camera in Aperture priority at f11.Does it exhibit the same fault in both portrait and landscape orientation?
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| Posted: Mon Apr 23rd, 2012 05:51 |
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richw
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jk wrote:Hmmm. Not experienced that thankfully. Firmware is 1.11. I'll update and see how it goes.
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| Posted: Mon Apr 23rd, 2012 05:52 |
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richw
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Eric wrote:richw wrote:I have made some poor shots with the EV dial - but on this tree every time I metered on it the whole shot blew out. The Exif shows exposure comp at zero, ISO at 200 and aperture at f11, I had the ISO on auto at this point and camera in Aperture priority at f11.Does it exhibit the same fault in both portrait and landscape orientation? Yes, same problem in Landscape.
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| Posted: Mon Apr 23rd, 2012 09:34 |
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Eric
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richw wrote: Eric wrote: Rich What is the ISO of the over exposed image? The reason I ask is I just got an overexposed image using auto ISO because the default ISO level set was higher than the required ISO. Let me say that another way..... The camera is set with auto ISO ON (max of 3200ISO and slow shutter of 1/20th) I flicked the lens to f2 and shutter speed to 1/250th. It is unusually, a sunny day outside. The camera ISO had been left on 2000 from previous use...far too high for the settings and conditions today, so it created an overexposed image like yours. What surprised me is that the auto ISO didnt kick in and reduce the ISO from the too high camera setting. On my camera .....Auto ISO adjusts UP when I have too low a default ISO setting for the available light and settings...but doesnt bother to adjust DOWN if I have it already set at an ISO above what auto ISO thinks is ok !!!!!
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