Metering
When faced with a variety of different lighting environments, the Fujifilm X-S1’s 256-zone evaluative metering performed extremely well. In fact, it is difficult to find fault with it.
There were a few occasions when the X-S1 didn’t produce a perfect exposure, but I could understand why this was the case. In bright snow, images were slightly underexposed, while high-contrast backlit scenes overexpose the sky or underexpose the subject, depending on exactly how the image was framed.
However, most importantly, the metering system behaved in exactly the same way every time, making it easy to predict how the camera will react so you can compensate accordingly.
One of the camera’s two other metering systems makes it even easier to predict the camera’s reaction. Average metering takes a meter reading from each of the 256 zones and then averages them to produce the exposure reading. Spot metering is also available for precise measurements, and all the settings are easily accessible via a dedicated button on the rear of the camera.
