x100v bokeh much less pleasing than x100t? ('restless')

Erik Baumgartner wrote:

Night Pixel wrote:

Chris Dodkin wrote:

te321 wrote:

Good question Chris, thanks.

When I playback this photo on my x100v it shows "MS" next to the single white histogram when I hit the up joystick twice. I think that means it fired with the manual shutter.

In the settings, 'Shooting Setting' page 2/3 has 'Shutter Type' on 'MS'.

Are there any other settings that might override this one?

if you are truly on MS and not one of the MS + ES modes, then shooting wide open at 1/2000 would be beyond you camera's shutter speed ability due to the limitations of the leaf shutter design.

The leaf shutter cannot cover that large an aperture in that time, leading to the image being overexposed.

In this case you're probably seeing overexposure destroying the smooth bokeh in the image due to clipping.

All good. The OP said they previously had an X100T and upgraded to X100V. I am assuming no change in shooting style and parameters.

Why would OP see a change in Bokeh when moving from T to V?

It would seem that the V has a significantly faster leaf shutter. the older cameras were leaf shutter limited to under 1/1000" at f/2, with the V being limited to under 1/2000". What does that mean in terms of bokeh effects? I don't know for sure (yet), but it stand to reason that the V will likely be better at 1/1000".

It could also be a change in lens formulation since the V has an all-new lens compared to all previous members of the X100 line.