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Jerry. We're really travelling in circles here (please refer to my original post). I know what tethering is and how to use it. I use the TL Plus View to trigger a Zeapon system for Time Lapse and the two together work perfectly fine. However, it would be nice to work occasionally without this rig and simply use the Fuji app. The workaround you're describing is unworkable for any serious Day to Night timelapse as, apart from anything else (such as camera touching and therefore unwanted movement) you are constantly looking in the rear view mirror as to what it is you're metering, not to mention that the space between intervals would have to be unusably long. (sigh) All Im asking is that the app displays the exposure when using ANY intervalometer. There may be no serious workaround, but I thank you for your thoughts.

Even Fuji Australia seem to see this as an oversight. The reason Im posting here is in the unlikely event that someone has a functional workaround...hopefully one that doesn't involve physically touching the camera...which is the entire point of the app so far as Im concerned.

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Jerry. I want to see the exposure meter. The +- meter you see in your viewfinder that tells you whether or not the picture you're taking is over or under exposed.

Jerry. Those are the exposure settings. Not the exposure reading. They merely tell you how you have your exposure set up, not what the exposure reading for the camera actually is. Also, there is no way to manually check between shots. Often I end up with a 23 second exposure over a 25 second interval. For eg. Its simply unworkable for any serious output.

Jerry. Im either blind or Ive finally lost it completely. Where in your screenshots does it display current exposure? In the viewfinder it would appear on the left of the live view.

It's impossible to get an even exposure sequence of photographs by guessing the exposure via an examination of the previous shot. This is not a serious option. Particularly when one might shoot 800-1000 images over 4 or so hours. However, my broader point is that the exposure reading is there when using the internal intervalometer (but not the application) but when using the application this utterly essential facility disappears. Why? A completely ludicrous oversight in what the manufacturer claims to be a professional system. Canon, Nikon and Sony (and probably just about everyone else) has been able to achieve this, the most fundamental aspect of photography (a remote exposure reading), for years.

Jerry. Thanks so much for going to so much effort here. However, I feel I may have inadvertently led you down the wrong path. Perhaps my OP was incoherent. Certainly it was verbose. Anyway, my issue is not regarding the connectivity nor the operation of the app (I am all too well versed in its idiosyncrasies), it's solely related to the fact that the app hijacks the camera screen output - not in and of itself the problem but it does exacerbate it. Why? Here is the issue - monitoring the exposure, not altering it. Once the app hijacks the screen any internal light reading is hidden. How, therefore, can one determine the correct exposure during, say, a timelapse? This renders the latest and previous apps utterly useless (IMHO). Regardless, you are very kind to go to such trouble for me - appreciated.

Thanks for your response, Jerry. So how does one determine exposure while using the app?

Hi all. Ive run this question through several other forums (with no success) and Ive spoken with Fuji Australia but Ive yet to find a solution to what I see as the most basic of functions regarding the Fuji App. When performing a Timelapse with an external intervalometer you can manually alter S, A, F and ISO manually and see the incoming light reading from the camera screens. However, manually shifting does create some headaches in post as even the most locked-down camera will inevitably move incrementally when performing these operations. So one might think the new (or even the old) Fuji app would allow one to perform these actions remotely, thus allowing the user not to have any physical contact with the camera once the Timelapse has begun. But the apps hijack the screens and then unhelpfully don't display exposure, thus rendering the apps useless in this, but also other, applications. I do use TL View + and this is a workaround but I find shooting day to night Timelapse's work better when making S,A, ISO alterations manually. Surely being able to read exposure is perhaps the most fundamental requirement of any camera system. Why does Fuji shut us out and is there a viable workaround? Many thanks for any help anyone might be able to give. FYI - shooting with XH2 and XT2 using both Fuji applications on iPhone X