Stories by pal2tech on Medium

Fujifilm Metering Modes Explained: MULTI, CENTER WEIGHTED, SPOT, and AVERAGE

pal2tech — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 20:31:47 GMT

How your Fujifilm camera decides how bright a photo should be, and the one menu setting that makes spot metering work the way you expect.

pal2tech — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 22:03:34 GMT

The number of focus points setting controls where you can put the focus box. That is the whole story, and it is more useful than it sounds.

pal2tech — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:01:18 GMT

Focus priority promises your Fujifilm will not fire until it has focus. AF+MF takes that promise back, and the manual admits it in exactly…

pal2tech — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:03:29 GMT

None of these are faults. They are defaults, and each one takes about thirty seconds to fix once you know where it lives.

pal2tech — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 19:01:47 GMT

What years of “help, my camera is dead” emails taught me about the menu items behind almost all of them.

pal2tech — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:30:13 GMT

The TourBox Elite Plus put my eyes back on the photograph, and after a few weeks it quietly took over the rest of my computer too.

pal2tech — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:22:31 GMT

Ranked from the biggest battery saver to the smallest, with the exact menu location for each one.

pal2tech — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:58:54 GMT

Your camera hides your real depth of field while you compose. Here is how to see it, control it, and read it before you take the shot.

pal2tech — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:39:16 GMT

Most of us do one of two things with the Grain Effect on a Fujifilm camera. We leave it off, because we tried it once, looked at the photo…

pal2tech — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 21:58:43 GMT

The smallest, cheapest macro Fujifilm makes is the one that actually runs my channel. Here is why.