I was out today in the late evening and tried to take some Christmas Lights shots with my XT-1. I did observe something weird. When I point the camera, looking into the EVF or the LCD, I see a nice preview just like I see with my eyes but lights look little off (exposure wise, like some are off). When I half press shutter, right before the instant I press the shutter, I would see all of the lights, just like I see with my naked eye but right at the moment I half pressed the shutter, bunch of lights would appear off. This will remain so as long as I kept the shutter half pressed. If I look at the taken shot, of course if would have much less lights on.
I know lights flickr and it probably something to do with shutter speed but I tried all combinations except shooting really longer exposures (had no tripod) but no luck. So I pulled my cell phone and took a shot. And guess what, I get a picture which looks exactly like I see with my eye. All lights appear to be ON. I look at the exif data, and settings seems quite same to what I was using on my XT-1, ISO2000, f2.8, 1/14. Tried same settings on XT-1 and again, on half press of shutter, more than half lights turn off on display and remain so when I preview the shot.
So what could be going on and what to do about it?
