Fuji XT1, need a little help!

Hi!

My friend was playing with my camera a little, and now it's set a little differently and I can't work out how to restore it to how it was.

It's acting like it's in A mode all the time. When the aperture, shutter speed, and ISO are set manually, the camera still reacts differently to the light. Which it shouldn't, because it's set to be manual. By this I mean, I point it at the ground, the screen brightens, and when I point it at the sky, it darkens. Then when I take the picture, the picture is made according to the manual settings, not what I saw on the screen. It's very troublesome, how can I fix it?

 

The way I am supposed to use it is, set the aperture to whatever, then as I spin the speed dial, the light level goes up and down. That's it

 

~thanks!

Go to your menu screen to: SCREEN SET UP.

Go to: PREVIEW EXOSURE./WB IN MANUAL MODE EXP/WB. Set to: PREVIEW EXP./WB

 

Also go to: PREVIEW PIC. EFFECT. Set to ON.

 

This should do the trick. I also recommend you get the latest firmware updates unless you already have.

Thank you so much! It fixed it. By the way, what does 'PREVIEW PIC. EFFECT.' do?

PREVIEW PIC. EFFECT is the mode that gives you, WYSIWYG. What you see is what you get. It's the sauce in mirrorless digital photography. If you disarm it you would be relying upon the sole mode of RAW shooting, using RAW files as a priority. I use RAW-FINE mode to get back ups, but I also take advantage of Fuji's success in the option of developing stunning jpegs. Sometimes Fuji jpegs are as good or better, or enough, but by setting RAW-FINE you can edit in camera. Its a great feature.

Thanks so much for your help!!