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Fuji X-H2S - Impossible to do fully manual time lapse (interval shooting)

Started 5 months ago | Questions thread
OP svensl New Member • Posts: 6
Re: Fuji X-H2S - Impossible to do fully manual time lapse (interval shooting)

Are you saying that you set your camera up for interval shooting but you manually adjust ISO as time goes along right before the camera takes the next photo?
Yes, that is exactly what I do.

Wouldn't the flickering you are talking about exist in both sets of timelapses (your manual intervention and Fuji Auto ISO)? If you are shooting from day to night, wouldn't that be exhausting to keep monitoring the situation?
It is time consuming but the only way to get consistent results. The camera is a dumb device and does not meter consistently, especially as it gets darker. You always want to be in full control to get a proper time lapse and hence exposure.
As you manually change exposure you of course get steps but these are maybe every 100 pictures or so and programs like Lrtimelapse are designed to handle these steps. If I let the camera choose the exposure I will get changes with every picture, very hard to smooth out. Also the camera often gets the exposure wrong as the metering may expose for the bright sunset and not the darker foreground or vica verse. It does not know what I want.

In any case, I find it odd that Fuji does not cater for fully manual control on their pro body. So if anybody knows of a setting I may have missed please let me know.

Thanks,

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