Outdoor daylight shooting

[JonR]

I like my X100 a lot and use it more and more. The size, image quality and the feature richness once you have learnt your way around the camera makes it a perfect companion.

One thing I have noticed is that the camera when in AF and P-mode with JPG shooting in outdoor daylight scenes seems to constantly over exposure a bit. I tend to allmost allways compensate in those scenes with +0,6 or +1 using the exposure compensation dial.

Have others experienced the same thing?
Do you also compensate manually or have you changed any other setting?

Jon

 

[ChrisN]

Plus compensation gives more exposure. Perhaps that is causing your over-exposure?

 

[JonR]

Pus compensation gives more exposure. Perhaps that is causing your over-exposure?

Sorry....I meant that the camera is constantly under exposing in those situation and I feel I get a better result by adjusting by +0,6 - +1!

🙂

Jon

 

[Richard G]

I haven't found this.

 

[JonR]

I have now found out what whas causing the exposure errors - the apparature does not open correctly! Testing it I have found that when for example choosing f=16 it does now allways open up at 16 but maybe 11 or 8! After having searched the web this seesm to be a problem others have also experienced. So, camera off to service!
Jon R

 

[btgc]

I have now found out what whas causing the exposure errors - the apparature does not open correctly! Testing it I have found that when for example choosing f=16 it does now allways open up at 16 but maybe 11 or 8!

In this case camera should overexpose.

 

[gavinlg]

Yep the sticky aperture problems - fuji is aware of this and fixing them for free. Only some are problematic.

 

[Nikonsnapper]

There is a problem with the aperture blades as you describe, but it causes over exposure, not under exposure. The blades stick and will not close down to smaller apertures. This causes dramatic over exposure. I had it and returned the camera.

 

[greyelm]

I have been shooting a lot of outdoor/landscape pictures and I have experienced this with more than one camera. If the view has a lot of sky then the meter will be influenced by this and force the reduced exposure accordingly. If you shoot raw as I do then the underexposure of the non-sky area is easily fixed by adjusting 'fill light' in Lightroom. If you are not worried about blowing the sky then a method I have used is to set the X100 AE button to lock, with this I tilt the camera down to reduce the amount of sky in view, lock the AE and then reframe and this gives better exposure for the foreground. As a side issue I have had the sticky blade problem and before it was fixed I got gross exposure as already mentioned.

 

[bhop73]

Yep the sticky aperture problems - fuji is aware of this and fixing them for free. Only some are problematic.

It appears to be a lot of them judging by multiple posts on other forums.. mine being one of them too. It's at Fuji now getting fixed.