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Spot meter technique

Started 7 months ago | Discussions thread
Dunlin Senior Member • Posts: 2,611
Re: Spot meter technique

stevet1 wrote:

No. I took a handful of pictures with this technique.

They suck.

I think I'll leave spot metering to creating silhouettes, or the rare occasion when I'm trying to get a small yellow flower surrounded by dark foliage.

Steve Thomas

Matrix (sorry, I think that's the nikon term, I can't remember canon's) metering (the usual one) works fine 95% of the time, it's only for particular circumstances that spot metering is needed.

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