Am I doing something wrong when I use manual exposure? I think I'm following all of the steps outlined in the X-T1 manual and in Rico's book. The problem is that the lens actually stops down when I turn the aperture ring. Is there a way to get the camera to keep the aperture open until I push the button to take the picture? That's the way my old SLR worked. This behavior is a problem because at f/22 there is so little light getting through to the viewfinder that I can't frame the picture.
I am doing some product shoots with two remote flash units triggered by the Fuji on-camera flash in the "Commander" mode. So the framing and focusing occur at the low room-level light before the flashes go off. I select, by trial and error, the proper manual exposure setting to give good flash pictures, and this generally means that the shutter speed is 1/160 sec (the maximum for flash sync) and the aperture is around f/22. But with those settings it is not possible to see in the viewfinder the object being photographed.
I am doing some product shoots with two remote flash units triggered by the Fuji on-camera flash in the "Commander" mode. So the framing and focusing occur at the low room-level light before the flashes go off. I select, by trial and error, the proper manual exposure setting to give good flash pictures, and this generally means that the shutter speed is 1/160 sec (the maximum for flash sync) and the aperture is around f/22. But with those settings it is not possible to see in the viewfinder the object being photographed.