(I recently posted this on another Fuji forum and got nowhere. Maybe you all can help?)
I've recently encountered some strange phenomena in LR. I often shoot manually (fixed A/SS/ISO), especially when employing the Brenizer method (which is how I noticed this issue in the first place), and when copying or syncing develop settings across images with the same exposure, some images display an inconsistent result. The first image here shows the first two images in a Brenizer series shot moments apart with the same settings in camera, and the second screenshot shows the result after I applied a preset. Screenshot 3 shows an exposure correction applied to return parity to the images - you can see it's almost two full stops. I've seen the discrepancies in exposures range from a couple of tenths to about two stops. My expectation would be for the preset to produce the same look in both images, but that's not what's happening (and the problem carries over to JPG output), and it makes bokeh stitches impossible. What gives?
Currently shooting an X-T2, X-T20, and usually the 56mm and 16-55mm.
Misc Notes:
it's probably not a hardware issue - I see the same behavior with both all bodies and lenses I mentioned.
I only recently learned about potential issues caused by Auto DR, but as you can see in the screenshots I included, I do see the problem when shooting at ISO 200, which would default to DR100. In any case, I believe I shot these images at DR100, so that shouldn't be an issue.
Results seem to correlate with the content in the original images - that is, after applying the preset to the first image (e.g. the headshot in a bokeh stitch), following images become darker if they already were darker, and brighter ones become brighter. As you can see in screenshot 1, the original exposures are and look the same - but the left image has more highlights in it, the right image more shadows - and the right image becomes much darker after the preset is applied. This behavior seems fairly consistent. Perhaps a clue?
Any ideas? Has anyone addressed this in another thread or forum? Let me know if my explanation is not clear. Thanks in advance for your help!
