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Wanted to ask if anyone else has encountered an issue where your a6300 has suddenly developed a problem with metering. In all modes, the camera is now selecting a much higher ISO or much longer exposure to shoot the same scenes that were shooting normally earlier. A normal indoor shot with a 35mm 1.8 lens at 2.0 or 2.2 aperture would be 1/80s long at 100 ISO but now is shooting at 1/10 or 1/5 second exposure. Or if I set the exposure at 1/60 or 1/80 the ISO is shooting up to 3200 or 6400. I know the camera very well as have taken several 10s of thousands of shots with it so noticed the difference immediately. I tried a 50mm and a 16mm lens in addition to the 35mm and see the same behavior. I have reset the camera, removed the battery, etc. but don't see a change. The only significant event before and after the problem started is that I bought and installed the TimeLapse Playmemories app a few days ago. I did one test timelapse overnight for about 7 hours with a USB battery powerbank attached to the camera usb port. When I woke up the internal battery and the powerbank were both exhausted and the camera had shut down. The time lapse was captured and I was able to preview it. One thing to note in the time lapse is that the AEL was set and the morning shots were completely blown out and the camera was probably shooting fully white frames for teh last hour or so. Not sure if this had anything to do with the problem I am now seeing but nothing else has changed. Could the camera have overheated being on for 7 hours and shooting continuously? Could the app be causing this issue? Please help. Do I need to take the camera in for repair?