GH13 Panasonic GH1 stuck on Auto exposure using a Manual Lens????

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pulsane

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Hi, hope someone can help me. I have a GH1 (GH13) and a Tokina lens attached to it. It is a manual lens with an aperture ring. However, when i turn the mode dial to 'M' to take still pix and turn the aperture ring to set exposure, the camera seems to compensate what i am doing and sets my exposure automatically. What's even more weird is that when I shoot film with the camera, hey presto, I have manual control! It's becoming quite frustrating because my films come out how I want, but my still pix are limited with this weird auto exposure thing. Someone please help!

PS I have set the menu to 'Shoot W/O lens' as it is a manual lens.
 
Sure it's really compensating the exposure and not just in the LCD to help with the framing (as it does with any lens)?

If what you say is true, since it's a manual lens, the only thing the camera can be adjusting is shutter speed.
 
Hi, Okay...if it's the shutter speed, do you know how I stop the camera from doing that? All I want is total manual control from the camera. Thanks.
 
Hi, Okay I will try selecting Shutter Priority. If I am 'locking exposure' it is unintentionally and please tell me how I'm doing that? All I want is a completely manual set-up when taking stills. I want to manually control, aperture, shutter speed and would like the lcd to display my selections correctly, so when I turn the aperture ring to f11, the lcd should turn black. At the moment, when I go through the various f-stops I can physically see the lcd picture 'jump' and compensate my selection. Although when I take the picture, it does show the true picture according to my selections. Is it just the LCD display allowing me to 'see'? I'm not sure.......?
 
Hi, That's the main issue. When I switch to 'M' the LCD seems to 'compensate' the exposure by lighting the screen. Can this setting be switched off? So that, when I select f11 on the lens, the LCD then displays a black screen.
 
M is not Manual! - what you are seeing is auto ISO - look at the iso setting and then press record and see what happens
 
Just make sure you've got the histogram turned on and check that. If it shows white with the peaks around the middle, then your exposure should be OK.
I don't think you can turn off the exposure compensation.
 
Check list:
- For film, go to Cinema mode and in the menu Motion Picture, set the exposure mode to M .
- Always have a value in ISO by clicking on the iso button. Not auto or i-iso.
- Make sure I.Dynamic is OFF
- Check if the footage you filmed has the issue or just your LCD.
- Check the auto exposure of the screen.
 
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