X-T2 couple of issues (or not)?

cybersimba said:

I have noticed a couple of issues with my x-t2 lately. Wondering if any of you have come across this. Perhaps they are non-issue and there is some solution/workaround to this depending on what is causing it.

1. I habitually turn off x-t2... and turn it on only when I need to shoot. This is just a result of saving battery over time that I am used to doing this especially with mirrorless setup. I don't do this with my Canon setup. Now with x-t2 recently I came across a case where when its turned off and say in some time I try to turn it on again, the first time it turns on... it takes few seconds to actually turn on. This is a problem especially when you are trying to shoot continuous BIF (birds in flight) type of shtos.. because by the time it has turned ON showing EVF... the moment is gone...

2. Second issue is that in continuous shooting... most of the times but not 100% of the time... the first frame is super bright exposed. I haven't tried to test this with single frame.. sometimes I do get even single frame... the first one in bright exposure...right after camera is turned on....

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cybersimba said:

any takers on this topic?

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Macro said:

cybersimba said:

I have noticed a couple of issues with my x-t2 lately. Wondering if any of you have come across this. Perhaps they are non-issue and there is some solution/workaround to this depending on what is causing it.

1. I habitually turn off x-t2... and turn it on only when I need to shoot. This is just a result of saving battery over time that I am used to doing this especially with mirrorless setup. I don't do this with my Canon setup. Now with x-t2 recently I came across a case where when its turned off and say in some time I try to turn it on again, the first time it turns on... it takes few seconds to actually turn on. This is a problem especially when you are trying to shoot continuous BIF (birds in flight) type of shtos.. because by the time it has turned ON showing EVF... the moment is gone...

2. Second issue is that in continuous shooting... most of the times but not 100% of the time... the first frame is super bright exposed. I haven't tried to test this with single frame.. sometimes I do get even single frame... the first one in bright exposure...right after camera is turned on....

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1. Do you have Sensor Cleaning selected to WHEN SWITCHED ON?

2. Here's a thread from someone with an X-H1 and similar problem.

X-H1 overexposed pictures

...and this related thread by the same member. He sent a couple of image files to Fujifilm for analysis. They think it's a probably hardware failure.

Need help to calculate Brightness Value from Exif file

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ikaika777 said:

cybersimba said:

any takers on this topic?

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Mine takes a few seconds to turn on, not all the time just if I turn it on and off a lot, like after every shot. The second problem you have no that’s never happened to me.

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bs1946 said:

Macro said:

cybersimba said:

I have noticed a couple of issues with my x-t2 lately. Wondering if any of you have come across this. Perhaps they are non-issue and there is some solution/workaround to this depending on what is causing it.

1. I habitually turn off x-t2... and turn it on only when I need to shoot. This is just a result of saving battery over time that I am used to doing this especially with mirrorless setup. I don't do this with my Canon setup. Now with x-t2 recently I came across a case where when its turned off and say in some time I try to turn it on again, the first time it turns on... it takes few seconds to actually turn on. This is a problem especially when you are trying to shoot continuous BIF (birds in flight) type of shtos.. because by the time it has turned ON showing EVF... the moment is gone...

2. Second issue is that in continuous shooting... most of the times but not 100% of the time... the first frame is super bright exposed. I haven't tried to test this with single frame.. sometimes I do get even single frame... the first one in bright exposure...right after camera is turned on....

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1. Do you have Sensor Cleaning selected to WHEN SWITCHED ON?

2. Here's a thread from someone with an X-H1 and similar problem.

X-H1 overexposed pictures

...and this related thread by the same member. He sent a couple of image files to Fujifilm for analysis. They think it's a probably hardware failure.

Need help to calculate Brightness Value from Exif file

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I have no idea about the bright exposure issue because I never encountered it when I had my X-T2 but if you have sensor cleaning set to WHEN SWITCHED ON, that will slow the startup speed. Change the sensor cleaning setting to WHEN SWITCHED OFF.

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cybersimba said:

2. Second issue is that in continuous shooting... most of the times but not 100% of the time... the first frame is super bright exposed. I haven't tried to test this with single frame.. sometimes I do get even single frame... the first one in bright exposure...right after camera is turned on....

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bs1946 said:

Macro said:

cybersimba said:

I have noticed a couple of issues with my x-t2 lately. Wondering if any of you have come across this. Perhaps they are non-issue and there is some solution/workaround to this depending on what is causing it.

1. I habitually turn off x-t2... and turn it on only when I need to shoot. This is just a result of saving battery over time that I am used to doing this especially with mirrorless setup. I don't do this with my Canon setup. Now with x-t2 recently I came across a case where when its turned off and say in some time I try to turn it on again, the first time it turns on... it takes few seconds to actually turn on. This is a problem especially when you are trying to shoot continuous BIF (birds in flight) type of shtos.. because by the time it has turned ON showing EVF... the moment is gone...

2. Second issue is that in continuous shooting... most of the times but not 100% of the time... the first frame is super bright exposed. I haven't tried to test this with single frame.. sometimes I do get even single frame... the first one in bright exposure...right after camera is turned on....

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1. Do you have Sensor Cleaning selected to WHEN SWITCHED ON?

2. Here's a thread from someone with an X-H1 and similar problem.

X-H1 overexposed pictures

...and this related thread by the same member. He sent a couple of image files to Fujifilm for analysis. They think it's a probably hardware failure.

Need help to calculate Brightness Value from Exif file

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I have no idea about the bright exposure issue because I never encountered it when I had my X-T2 but if you have sensor cleaning set to WHEN SWITCHED ON, that will slow the startup speed. Change the sensor cleaning setting to WHEN SWITCHED OFF.

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pw-pix2 said:

cybersimba said:

2. Second issue is that in continuous shooting... most of the times but not 100% of the time... the first frame is super bright exposed. I haven't tried to test this with single frame.. sometimes I do get even single frame... the first one in bright exposure...right after camera is turned on....

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Is that behaviour with more than one lens?
Maybe something amiss with the aperture actuation?
Clean contacts on body and lens/es, retest.
What does the EXIF data of the overexposed frame say about settings vs the next (correctly exposed) frame?

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cybersimba said:

pw-pix2 said:

cybersimba said:

2. Second issue is that in continuous shooting... most of the times but not 100% of the time... the first frame is super bright exposed. I haven't tried to test this with single frame.. sometimes I do get even single frame... the first one in bright exposure...right after camera is turned on....

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Is that behaviour with more than one lens?
Maybe something amiss with the aperture actuation?
Clean contacts on body and lens/es, retest.
What does the EXIF data of the overexposed frame say about settings vs the next (correctly exposed) frame?

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Well my 100-400 is always on x-t2... so far I noticed that on 100-400... but today I tried with 35 f2 and I see the same behavior. haven't checked exif data to compare. I shall check and post back. thanks.

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baobob said:

Have you got the batts grip?

Do you set turbo mode on ?

Could you post samples (too light )?

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cybersimba said:

I have noticed a couple of issues with my x-t2 lately. Wondering if any of you have come across this. Perhaps they are non-issue and there is some solution/workaround to this depending on what is causing it.

1. I habitually turn off x-t2... and turn it on only when I need to shoot. This is just a result of saving battery over time that I am used to doing this especially with mirrorless setup. I don't do this with my Canon setup. Now with x-t2 recently I came across a case where when its turned off and say in some time I try to turn it on again, the first time it turns on... it takes few seconds to actually turn on. This is a problem especially when you are trying to shoot continuous BIF (birds in flight) type of shtos.. because by the time it has turned ON showing EVF... the moment is gone...

2. Second issue is that in continuous shooting... most of the times but not 100% of the time... the first frame is super bright exposed. I haven't tried to test this with single frame.. sometimes I do get even single frame... the first one in bright exposure...right after camera is turned on....

thanks,

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rwbaron said:

I don't recall experiencing the first issue with startup but do you have the camera set to high performance mode? I keep my X-T2 with grip set that way all the time so maybe that's why I've not had the problem.

As for the exposure issue I rarely shoot action in auto exposure. Using auto exposure IMO is just too inconsistent and has compromised many of my images in the past. This is not a Fuji issue as I had the same problem when I shot Canon. I shoot raw + fine Jpeg and set manual exposure based on something close to neutral grey. On the X-T2 the rear thumb wheel gives you +/-2/3rd's stop of fine tuning while your shooting.

Bob

cybersimba said:

I have noticed a couple of issues with my x-t2 lately. Wondering if any of you have come across this. Perhaps they are non-issue and there is some solution/workaround to this depending on what is causing it.

1. I habitually turn off x-t2... and turn it on only when I need to shoot. This is just a result of saving battery over time that I am used to doing this especially with mirrorless setup. I don't do this with my Canon setup. Now with x-t2 recently I came across a case where when its turned off and say in some time I try to turn it on again, the first time it turns on... it takes few seconds to actually turn on. This is a problem especially when you are trying to shoot continuous BIF (birds in flight) type of shtos.. because by the time it has turned ON showing EVF... the moment is gone...

2. Second issue is that in continuous shooting... most of the times but not 100% of the time... the first frame is super bright exposed. I haven't tried to test this with single frame.. sometimes I do get even single frame... the first one in bright exposure...right after camera is turned on....

thanks,

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cybersimba said:

I have noticed a couple of issues with my x-t2 lately. Wondering if any of you have come across this. Perhaps they are non-issue and there is some solution/workaround to this depending on what is causing it.

1. I habitually turn off x-t2... and turn it on only when I need to shoot. This is just a result of saving battery over time that I am used to doing this especially with mirrorless setup. I don't do this with my Canon setup. Now with x-t2 recently I came across a case where when its turned off and say in some time I try to turn it on again, the first time it turns on... it takes few seconds to actually turn on. This is a problem especially when you are trying to shoot continuous BIF (birds in flight) type of shtos.. because by the time it has turned ON showing EVF... the moment is gone...

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cybersimba said:

2. Second issue is that in continuous shooting... most of the times but not 100% of the time... the first frame is super bright exposed. I haven't tried to test this with single frame.. sometimes I do get even single frame... the first one in bright exposure...right after camera is turned on....

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cybersimba said:

thanks,

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cybersimba said:

I have noticed a couple of issues with my x-t2 lately. Wondering if any of you have come across this. Perhaps they are non-issue and there is some solution/workaround to this depending on what is causing it.

1. I habitually turn off x-t2... and turn it on only when I need to shoot. This is just a result of saving battery over time that I am used to doing this especially with mirrorless setup. I don't do this with my Canon setup. Now with x-t2 recently I came across a case where when its turned off and say in some time I try to turn it on again, the first time it turns on... it takes few seconds to actually turn on. This is a problem especially when you are trying to shoot continuous BIF (birds in flight) type of shtos.. because by the time it has turned ON showing EVF... the moment is gone...

2. Second issue is that in continuous shooting... most of the times but not 100% of the time... the first frame is super bright exposed. I haven't tried to test this with single frame.. sometimes I do get even single frame... the first one in bright exposure...right after camera is turned on....

thanks,

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cybersimba said:

rwbaron said:

I don't recall experiencing the first issue with startup but do you have the camera set to high performance mode? I keep my X-T2 with grip set that way all the time so maybe that's why I've not had the problem.

As for the exposure issue I rarely shoot action in auto exposure. Using auto exposure IMO is just too inconsistent and has compromised many of my images in the past. This is not a Fuji issue as I had the same problem when I shot Canon. I shoot raw + fine Jpeg and set manual exposure based on something close to neutral grey. On the X-T2 the rear thumb wheel gives you +/-2/3rd's stop of fine tuning while your shooting.

Bob

cybersimba said:

I have noticed a couple of issues with my x-t2 lately. Wondering if any of you have come across this. Perhaps they are non-issue and there is some solution/workaround to this depending on what is causing it.

1. I habitually turn off x-t2... and turn it on only when I need to shoot. This is just a result of saving battery over time that I am used to doing this especially with mirrorless setup. I don't do this with my Canon setup. Now with x-t2 recently I came across a case where when its turned off and say in some time I try to turn it on again, the first time it turns on... it takes few seconds to actually turn on. This is a problem especially when you are trying to shoot continuous BIF (birds in flight) type of shtos.. because by the time it has turned ON showing EVF... the moment is gone...

2. Second issue is that in continuous shooting... most of the times but not 100% of the time... the first frame is super bright exposed. I haven't tried to test this with single frame.. sometimes I do get even single frame... the first one in bright exposure...right after camera is turned on....

thanks,

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I always have camera in boost/high performance mode. Did not understand what you meant by manual exposure with regard to shooting in burst mode whether it’s AF-S or AF-C and single or multiple shots (burst), I always adjust my aperture and shutter and have only ISO in auto mode. That alone is manual exposure I would think. I also adjust ISO specifically some times depending on the need. Can you explain what you meant by manual mode and how it helps you get consistent exposure in CH continuous high) mode on Fuji?

thanks,

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