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It seems that the EVF (and LCD) live preview always shows the target (selected) exposure value, even if the shutter/ISO/aperture settings cannot achieve the correct exposure. For example, the attached image shows me taking a picture using X-T30, of a dimly lit room in the evening, with a kit lens at auto aperture (chosen as f/3.5 by the camera), ISO set to 100, and shutter set to 4000. The exposure dial is set to +2.0. Although it's obvious that this image will be completely black when taken, the LCD shows a slightly overexposed image (corresponding to the EV wheel setting) and the EV indicator shows +2.0. Taking the shot will result in a completely black picture. In practice, this can be very misleading because it shows the exposure which will not be achieved and it's easy to ruin a shot accidentally. Shooting in manual doesn't have this issue, i.e. as soon as I select this same f/3.5 aperture manually, the preview shows the correct exposure (completely black). From that point on the preview reacts to changes in ISO and SS. I've used other MLCs (Sony a6000 and Lumix GM1), and neither of them behaved this way. I also had a Nikon DSLR which would at least show the numerical EV value inside the OVF, so you would immediately see how far off the target exposure the settings are. Even the histogram shows the exposure of the live preview, instead of the actual exposure of the final photo, so there isn't a single indicator on the EVF which indicates how far from the correct exposure the resulting image will be. Is there a possibility to change this behavior anyhow, or perhaps least send a feature request somewhere to perhaps consider it for a future firmware release?