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Shooting manual washes a lot of stuff out

Started May 1, 2020 | Questions thread
AshleyMC Senior Member • Posts: 2,228
Re: Shooting manual washes a lot of stuff out

Rocket13 wrote:

Ashley I am confused all three of my cameras T6 80 and 90D have spot metering . What do you mean by not supported? Or did I misread something? Thank you.

You did misread something. I wrote: spot metering at the AF point.

Canon is an expert at offering its valued customers half-baked or restricted features. In this case, spot metering at the centre of the viewfinder only.

AF point linked spot metering is a feature Canon reserves for the 1D series only. Not even the 5D series bodies have this feature.

I don't use a Rebel T6 (1300D) but I doubt very much that it supports any simplistic kind of spot metering. So I looked up the manual...

page 115 of the Canon EOS T6 User Manual - Changing the Metering Mode

And while I was at it, I looked up the 90D manual...

page 158 of the Canon 90D Advanced User Manual

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