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| p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · X-T1 With Non-Fuji Flash Question and manual focus.. | |
I have a question that perhaps someone could help me with. I'm sitting here playing around/familiarizing myself with the X-T1 and I have mounted via adapter a Nikon 105 2.5 Ais and also a Non-Fuji Flash that I have setup in manual mode ( Yes it's a low voltage, 4V unit made for nikon but triggers just fine here ). I have the Fuji Set to ISO 200, with shutter speed set to 180/second ( Flash sync speed ). I also have my lens aperture set to F5.6. Flash is manually set to the power output I want, and I have set the X-T1 to "force flash".
My issue is, the Viewfinder is dark. So dark I can't see enough to manually focus on my subject. I know why, it's seeing my exposure, so it's showing me exactly what my exposure would give me *if* I was not using a flash. But thats' the problem. I have told the camera to force flash.. so I will be providing light. Of course, if I turn the ISO to auto, the viewfinder brightens up instantly as the camera picks ISO 1600, and I can see perfectly my subject I want to photograph, but, well.. I don't want ISO 1600 since I am providing flash...
So my question is, what would be the best way to set the camera so I can actually focus when providing light that is not entering the frame, but will be coming via flash? Seems to me, since I am telling the camera to "force flash" that it should know I am providing some sort of external light and thus, should brighten the viewfinder so I could at least focus. But obviously I am not thinking correctly here because that is not what is happening 
I guess another example would be, what if I wanted to shoot some shallow depth of field portraits outside on a sunny day using a manual focus lens and fill flash? ( I manually set the aperture ). In this scenario I would use a ND filter to bring the available light down 180/sec so I could sync with my flash for fill.. am I going to be facing the same issue? Too dark to focus even though the viewfinder CAN brighten up enough to give me visual info to focus, but it won't because it's reading exposure that is coming through the lens and not my intended exposure when forcing the flash to trigger? Seems a great loss for an EVF... or I'm missing something. I'm sure I am doing something wrong here.
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