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I tried a mirrorless. Have you?

Started Apr 18, 2022 | Discussions thread
John McMillin Contributing Member • Posts: 738
Re: I tried a mirrorless. Have you?

KPM2 wrote:

BTW: something I could never try out with a mirrorless in a shop is: What happens when you use a flash ? For example you use the camera in manual mode and the flash must do the exposure for the scene (in a litt Illuminate room) What do you see in the EVF than ? Or with backlit scenes, where you use the flash for fill-light for the person in this scene....what do you see from the dark person in the EVF ? This you could ask your brother in law.

best regards KPM2

That can be a problem! You want to underexpose the scene, saving the brightest areas from overexposure, but your mirrorless camera EVF shows  you only that underexposed image, before the flash fires. That made my X-Pro 1 useless for studio and real estate work. The second generation of Fuji X-cameras solved that by adding an option to disable  the default of "Preview Exposure in Finder." I imagine all mirrorless cameras do that now...

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