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Metering on Fuji X100 - Page 3

Is it bad or just my model?

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Posted: Mon Apr 23rd, 2012 17:12

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jk wrote:
Its going into autumn in Oz :lol:

I will bet it's still 500% sunnier than it is here!

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Posted: Mon Apr 23rd, 2012 18:34

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Rich-

If your firmware update doesn't help, fill out a tech support request on the fuji Web site and you will hear from them within a day and will give you a contact to call for help. If you have to send it in to them, they pretty much promise to turn the camera around in 24 hours from when they receive it and send it back overnight delivery.

I think you will scratch your head and ask why every company's support isn't this good :-)

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Posted: Tue Apr 24th, 2012 04:12

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Eric wrote:
richw wrote: 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.

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.Does it exhibit the same fault in both portrait and landscape orientation?

Yes, same problem in Landscape.

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 !!!!!

I've had that one before also Eric, but in this case the ISO was set at 200.

Posted: Tue Apr 24th, 2012 04:13

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TomOC wrote:
Rich-

If your firmware update doesn't help, fill out a tech support request on the fuji Web site and you will hear from them within a day and will give you a contact to call for help. If you have to send it in to them, they pretty much promise to turn the camera around in 24 hours from when they receive it and send it back overnight delivery.

I think you will scratch your head and ask why every company's support isn't this good :-)

Tom

Thanks Tom.

Posted: Tue Apr 24th, 2012 04:15

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jk wrote:
Yes four stops is right.
I also notice that the EXIF I am seeing is not the same as Rich is quoting.
He says f11, I see f16.

Wish I was in Oz as I could test with him.

You're right JK - I miss quoted. I was working around f11 and f16 that day.

I've updated the firmware and next sunny day will check again. If it's still an issue I'm going to take Tom's advice and fill out a support request.

Posted: Tue Apr 24th, 2012 11:39

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richw wrote: jk wrote:
Yes four stops is right.
I also notice that the EXIF I am seeing is not the same as Rich is quoting.
He says f11, I see f16.

Wish I was in Oz as I could test with him.

You're right JK - I miss quoted. I was working around f11 and f16 that day.

I've updated the firmware and next sunny day will check again. If it's still an issue I'm going to take Tom's advice and fill out a support request.
Shots of clouds in the sky work.

I know that it is cold in Melbourne (today/your yesterday) as my friends was saying that it was only 9C.
Sounds like autumn is well and truly there.

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Posted: Thu Oct 25th, 2012 07:03

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I no longer think it's the metering that's the problem on this. Shooting manually getting some very weird results.

The below was taken on a bright but overcast day (taken just to test exposure).

At f16 and ISO200, using sunny 16 I set the exposure time to 1/250 (closest thing to 1/200 available). Badly over exposed result seems to me that something is wrong with shutter rather than the meter. Exif data is correct other than the date which seems to have got out of kilter somehow.

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Posted: Thu Oct 25th, 2012 07:09

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I got an OK exposure at f8.0 by experimenting. The below was shot at 1/2000 at f8, ISO200. Once again using Sunny16 as a guide I figured this should have been roughly 1/800?

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Posted: Thu Oct 25th, 2012 07:19

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And as annoying as getting the exposure right is it's still great to have a camera that will slip into a pocket and take out with you when I would never take a DSLR. I can still play till I get it about right.

Here's one of Jac and some friends.

Posted: Thu Oct 25th, 2012 12:19

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Rich is there no way you can have the camera checked out by Fuji.

In fact many camera repairers have a shutter speed test mechine.

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