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New Fuji user in need of advice on shooting settings.

Started 9 months ago | Discussions thread
Erik Baumgartner Senior Member • Posts: 6,894
Re: New Fuji user in need of advice on shooting settings.
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Welcome aboard. Assuming the X-H2S is like all the other Fujis, though not a true RAW indicator, the highlight warning blinkies are very useful for judging RAW exposure and closely mirror the RAW green channel (the one that clips first nearly all the time). The blinkies respond pretty much the same with any combination of film sim/jpeg settings (that I’ve tried, anyway), so set those up for whatever EVF look you want. The DR modes require a higher than base ISO to operate and will underexpose the RAW files if base ISO was a feasible option. I don’t see any good reason for a RAW shooter to use anything besides DR100. Use the blinkies to expose your highlights correctly in the first place and you’re good to go.

Using Natural Live View won’t convey an accurate representation of exposure at all and the blinkies will not function properly, so I highly recommend not going there except for with a flash in low light.

The RGB histogram does mirror the jpeg view in the EVF and won’t be representative of the RAW file either, so you’ll probably want to skip that too. I use only the blinkies with exposure compensation and get perfect RAW exposures every time. “Just” blinking clouds are usually fine and easily recoverable with good results as typically only one channel will clip, but you don’t ever want to see blinking skin.

Erik

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