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What is your normal exposure metering method?

Started Jan 6, 2020 | Questions thread
Scottelly
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Re: What is your normal exposure metering method?

xpatUSA wrote:

absquatulate wrote:

With my SD Quattro I use the liveview histogram to balance the exposure as best as I can. I know it's for jpegs but as I use the camera regularly I know what I'm going to get based on what the histogram is telling me, it works well for me. I also do the same with my DPXM's, I normally leave all of them in matrix metering mode. For those that might say the histogram is not particularly accurate, I never get an exposure I'm not happy with using this method, first time. I rarely have to change the exposure at all in post, unless I've deliberately under-exposed with a view to tweaking it in post.

Thanks for responding, Abs.

To anyone that claims that "the histogram is not particularly accurate", I'd comment that they do not understand histograms.

I guess my noisy mosquito example wasn't convincing, huh Ted?

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