What is your normal exposure metering method?

xpatUSA wrote:

Scottelly wrote:

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?

I'm glad you were joking Scott!

Otherwise, I'd have to ask you to explain exactly how this histogram of your posted review image is inaccurate:

Especially when ImageJ's histogram of your original image is almost identical (see bottom right):

And, with only a bit of noise in the dark area selected at top right, I'm not sure why you called the image "noisy"! To me, a SNR of about 50 in such a dark area is pretty good - SPP must have been quite busy, LOL.

I think this is a good example. Do you really think that the two histograms are almost identical? But maybe the imageJ histogram uses a different y scaling. And you show the histogram in SPP, not the in-camera histogram. I didn‘t test it, but I assume the SPP histogram already reflects the settings in SPP, not what you see in-camera.