XH2s Using EV in Manual Mode

fotoword wrote:

Morris0 wrote:

fotoword wrote:

Morris0 wrote:

fotoword wrote:

Morris0 wrote:

If I read this correctly, you set auto ISO to vary between 160-800. Where is all this exposure compensation supposed to come from?

Morris

Hi Morris

It adjusts the ISO values when you use the EV dial. If you fix the ISO to a specified value then it won't let you select the EV dial. Pressing your nominated EV button did nothing in that instance.

Cheers

Paul

You asked for +5 EV yet limited the ISO range two well less than +5.

Morris

Hi Morris

Not quite, I asked for max ISO and kept turning the dial till it reached it on screen.

I know it won't reach +5 but the dial doesn't. Once it reaches max ISO I would expect the dial should allow me to go back a step or 2 from the shown +1/3 but it doesn't. Not until I keep turning the dial an indeterminate number of times in the opposite direction.

Let me explain it another way using aperture.

My largest aperture is 2.8 and if I turn the dial beyond this, it doesn't cause me to have to turn the dial an indeterminate number of times in the other direction to get to say f3.2. One click in the other direction does it. Also it still shows f2.8 even I take the photo. It doesn't show, say f1.4.

The ISO dial doesn't recognise these boundaries and elicits the behaviour I described in my post. The exposure is correct but the EV value shown in the image is not.

Let me put forward how it will happen in the field.

I'm excited, I see a pic of a dark bird flying by, I'm underexposed, I quickly turn the EV dial, I reach max ISO and keep turning cause I'm following the bird, maybe turning half a dozen extra clicks in my exuberance. I'm exposed correctly but my dial is off the clock. Suddenly a white bird flies by, I want to underexpose so I turn the EV dial back 3 clicks and nothing's changed. So I turn it 3 more clicks and I'm still at the same exposure for the dark bird, but now the dial is in sync with the displayed EV value. So I can now start lowering the EV and actually see it changing value on screen, in the meantime the white bird is gone ☹️

So that's my dilemma. Hope that clarifies what I'm trying to say.

Thanks for your reply 😃

Cheers

Paul

This sounds like a repeatable issue and dose not require action to simulate it. I suggest you report this to Fuji support. Be aware that depending on who you talk to you may get "that's the way it works." or somone interested who may escalate the issue.

Morris

Thanks for the suggestion Morris.

I might send them an email about it

Cheers

Paul

If you write them an email, could you please add also a comment on the (assigned) EV button behaviour? I'd prefer if one could also a Nikon like "push and change" instead of the Toggle button like it is now.