light metering, need instruction

some simple beginner questions:

i have a g3. if i want to take a pic of some ppl indoors with a window in the background (not directly) or even directly in front of a window, should i put the cam in P - Program mode and change the light metering mode to spot AE point?

and of course, the best setup is to have natural light coming in from the window falling upon my subject, right?

thanks.

Yes, spot metering might be good, or fill-flash. I was just running into this same situation over the weekend. I was taking a picture of my son sitting at the kitchen table..lots of light coming in from a window beside and party behind him. i turned off the flash, used P mode and spot metered. the lighting came out okay on the image, but the camera decided to use 1/60th and i got some blur due to movement. I guess it figured it didn't have much light, although it was really bright in there. I'm not sure. I'm pretty fuzzy on how all this works.

I think maybe I need to play with shutter speeds a bit. I'm still learning.

sigpop said:

some simple beginner questions:

i have a g3. if i want to take a pic of some ppl indoors with a
window in the background (not directly) or even directly in front
of a window, should i put the cam in P - Program mode and change
the light metering mode to spot AE point?

and of course, the best setup is to have natural light coming in
from the window falling upon my subject, right?

thanks.

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Canon G2

sigpop said:

some simple beginner questions:

i have a g3. if i want to take a pic of some ppl indoors with a
window in the background (not directly) or even directly in front
of a window, should i put the cam in P - Program mode and change
the light metering mode to spot AE point?

and of course, the best setup is to have natural light coming in
from the window falling upon my subject, right?

thanks.

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I've had pretty good luck using P mode and Center-Weighted Averaging (pg 83 in G3 manual) when taking pics of my kids in front of a window or door.

Good luck!

Jonica