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Waleed

The wide f/2 aperture, was one of the reasons I decided to get the X100.. It allows for an acceptable bokeh with its APS-C sensor. I was too distracted with the aperture, that I missed reading about a limitation, the X100's shutter cannot go faster than 1/1000 at f/2.

Page 28 from the X100 manual

Hold on.. 1/1000 is too fast, why would I even need it? Well, at f/2 and bright daylight, 1/1000 will allow too much light to get in, resulting in an over exposed photograph. So, what are the options?

You can chose one of the following solutions:
1. Reduce the aperture to f/4 or tighter... Or
2. Enable the built-in ND (Neutral Density) Filter.

Reducing the aperture is an easy and straight forward solution, but it will sacrifice the shallow depth of field of a wide aperture, allowing more elements of your composition to be in-focus.

The second solution is to enable the built-in ND filter, which will reduce the exposure by 3 EV.. To me, this is better.. I can keep my beautiful bokeh, without any sacrifices.. Perfect.

So, how do you enable it? Just go to the menu, and switch it ON

To reduce the hassle of navigating through the menus every time I need to use the ND, I can just program the Function Button (Fn) to active/deactivate ND. You can program the Fn from this menu option

Now you're ready to access the ND Filter whenever you need
Fn button on the X100 camera

I hope you found this little tip useful.. If you have any question, please leave a comment..
Enjoy :)

Christopher

You can additionally set the RAW button to act as a second Fn button, and assign the ND filter to activate there as well.

Finch585

If you use the FN for ND, how did you choose to easily adjust ISO?
thanks,
Jeffrey
(novice photog and new X100 user)

kevenv

Finch585 said:
If you use the FN for ND, how did you choose to easily adjust ISO?
thanks,
Jeffrey
(novice photog and new X100 user)

As the post above yours noted, you can assign the RAW button as a second Fn button. Put the ISO on that.

mattmaber

my FN button is ISO and RAW varies between film simulation and ND depending on what I'm up to

Finch585

kevenv said:

Finch585 said:
If you use the FN for ND, how did you choose to easily adjust ISO?
thanks,
Jeffrey
(novice photog and new X100 user)

As the post above yours noted, you can assign the RAW button as a second Fn button. Put the ISO on that.

Right, I had seen that post and thought about the RAW button for ISO, too, but then thought " what about the RAW button's original functionality?" Is that a not oft used feature in your shooting?
thx

Jeffrey

kevenv

@Jeffrey, If you shoot RAW+JPEG the "RAW" button is superfluous. I shoot JPEG only, having no desire to shoot RAW, thus the button's original purpose isn't needed and it is open to other uses.

Ian59

Holding either Fn or RAW buttons for a couple of seconds shortcuts to the menu, very quick to re-assign either button.

WilzWorkz7

What options to use for Fn button and Raw as Fn 2 button will sorely depend on your shooting style.

For example, for a person who uses JPEGs or RAW+JPEG for their shooting will not need the RAW function

But the RAW function will be useful for people who would be switching to RAW for very difficult shooting situations with different light source for the scene and having the button will quickly call up the RAW function.

I would say majority of users will be the former and hence the RAW button, after feedback from the public, was enable as a Fn button number 2 to much cheer from all of us.

From my observation there are 4 main functions that people will attribute to the function buttons in terms of priority.

a) ISO selection. Some people hate auto ISO and that includes me. I would want to know where my aperture/shutter setting has gone wrong and Auto ISO do mask the mistake. No matter how good the ISO performance is, using a lower ISO if the lighting condition permits usually will yield a better IQ
b) Timer. I use this quite often because I do shoot with tripod and use the lowest ISO possible
c) ND filter. for times when you need F2.0 bokeh effect in bright lighting conditions
d) RAW.

stuartm

Great tip, I found activating the nd a real pain through the menu on my x100s, and it's not on the q menu. The camera doesn't seem to have a raw button, but I can still access iso through the q button if required.

secondintime

As the ISO noise is very good on the X100 I have left it on auto, limited to 3200, my fn button is for the ND filter, and my RAW button is set to switch between my custom settings. Is it likely that the X100 will get a Q button via firmware update? the X10 did.

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