studio photography with strobes

Using a Sony 6300, exposure times set to maybe 1/100, almost nothing is visible through the vf. How are people getting around this?

I had a similar experience with Fuji X-E1 and an adapted Summicron set to f16, packed it up and shot conventional finder concepts instead. Framing and composing wide open and stopping down for the exposure did feel like kind of an option but the aperture clicks are too harsh to do that without a tripod and I suffered from EVF refresh rate too.

• If you are lucky; somewhere deep in your manual and menus could be an option to decouple your EVF "bright"ness from exposure settings.
  
• Maybe you can toggle from aperture priority to manual mode before the exposure?
   
  
• Recalling Pentax SLRs, I see a 3rd option in a nasty soldering challenge: With shutter in auto mode their sync speed got forced via system hotshoe flashes' "I'm charged and ready"-pin. - So if you manage to put that pin through an easy to operate interrupting button you'd be fine too.
  

There must be more than one way to solve the issue. - Sorry, I don't have Sonys with hotshoes, so I can't really help, but I am fairly confident about your menus and hope Ed or Mukul will jump in and enlighten you.

Using a Sony 6300, exposure times set to maybe 1/100, almost nothing is visible through the vf. How are people getting around this?

 

Hi no actual experience, but a book fragment from Google inicates that you should look for a setting called " Setting Effect," and set it = OFF. Return the setting to ON for normal shooting.

 

Look in "Custom settings 3" menu, item "Live View Display."

 

Info courtesy of David Busch’s Sony Alpha a6300/ILCE-6300 Guide to Digital Photography. Best of luck.

...thanks, that works. Took quite a bit of finding!