What is your normal exposure metering method?

FDecker 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.

Maybe the words „not accurate“ are not really correct in a semantic or literal way here. Maybe „not representing the RAW data“ would be better in this respect. As far as I understand, the histogram shows the distribution of brightness from the resulting in-camera jpg. I accept that some people use the words „not accurate“ in this context based on the assumption that they do the RAW development in SPP and not with the actual settings in-camera.

The thing is, if you're using a jpeg histogram in camera, and you position it as you see fit, you know you will always have more latitude when it comes to processing the raw. The trick is to understand where the distribution of brightness is on the histogram and how to use that information to give you the exposure you are aiming for. People have a tendency to over-complicate this, but it's really quite simple in practice,