I recently bought a Fujifilm XQ2 and there is something I just can't figure out.
Yes, I have gone through the user manual a number of times.
In very bright daylight when the correct shutter speed for f1.8 is around 1/5000-1/8000 the XQ2 tops out at 1/1000 even though it can shoot at 1/4000 - according to the manual. The 1/1000 shutter speed is set in red to indicate that the exposure will not be correct but will still shoot at this shutter speed.
When I stop down to f2.8 it will shoot at 1/1200 so I know that 1/1000 can not be the fastest shutter speed on the XQ2.
Is it a XQ2 only problem or are there any other Fujifilm users here having the same issue?
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It tops out (nice word) when I force the camera to use the mechanical shutter (max 1/4000 or 1/8000 on X-E2 / X-T2) although it could speed up to (fake) 1/32.000. And I'm not sure if I could find that hint in the manual. In Fuji's manuals a couple of functions are described only bascially. I would need to kn ow more - but they don't managed to imagine the necessary information.
However, I don't know much about X-Q2 (not to say, plain nothing). Soem of the Fuji functions I still don't understand how they work or why they have to work that (often weird) way. Maybe thxbb knows more?
edit: Just looked in the manual.
In which mode the shutterspeed turns red? I read a sentence like: If the shutter speed is displayed in red at the selected aperture, photos will be taken without the selected shutter speed.(Page 37)
A very good example to what I complained about before: If the picture "will be taken without the selected shutter speed" - then with which shutterspeed? Or no picture at all - but it says it will be taken? Or what else?
I've tried A, P and other modes. Interestingly enough, in the user manual there are a whole bunch of pages where 1/1000 is used as examples. It is as if 1/1000 is some sort of sacred shutter speed.
As a side note I was pulling my hair out as to why I couldn't get the camera to shoot in multi-area focus mode even though I read that section about a hundred times. It just kept shooting in single focus area mode.
When the battery finally emptied and I put a fresh one in, as if by magic, the function then worked.
Anyways, I bought it for the wife so maybe she can figure it out. Yeah, right (not to be overly critical of the fairer sex).
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Good man, women usually are technically very gifted eevn if they had it with outstanding success.
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Thanks Markus. That was a good find.
I went through the official user manual with a fine tooth comb and it is not mentioned there.
Someone needs to ask Fuji-san under what circumstances would you shoot at f16 and 1/4000!
Owe you a beer or if you prefer a CX lens or two for testing.
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Maybe it uses the aperture as shutter in the lens, closing from small aperture being faster than from wide open.
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That's not possible with normal Iris-blades, or? Wouldn't they jam in the center? But with other shapes maybe.
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Don't know, the last time I owned a compact digital camera was when I had my Canon S30, which had a shutter in the lens.
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I still have an Olympus X-A film camera. It has V-shaped aperture blades, but also a shutter- Three decades ago the precision of this parts maybe was limited.