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R5/R6 Metering

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PDE94301 Forum Member • Posts: 60
Re: R5/R6 Metering
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Basil Fawlty wrote:

If I could ask Canon to make one change to the R5/R6 or other R series cameras, it would be to enable a feature that would allow the camera to meter the scene based on where you have the focus point aimed.

I believe how metering works, is say you have spot metering or evaluative metering set - the light for the shot is metered from roughly the center of the scene. But what if your focus point is somewhere to the left or right and the lighting in that part of the scene is much different?

It would be nice to have a feature (selectable) that would allow you to have the metering based on wherever you have the focus point aimed. I would think this could be accomplished with a firmware update?

Do you have a "wish" for future firmware upgrades?

Although Canon's literature on the inner workings of evaluative metering for R5/R6 is sparse, I believe it does give some additional weighting to the focus point. I don't think it's a true spot meter as the exposure doesn't seem to change massively when moving the focus point from very light to very dark areas. I agree that a true focus-based spot meter would be a nice additional option, as would having a smaller area for the spot metering they do have.  Additionally, I would like to see them add real-time highlights/blinkies pre-capture (as opposed to only being viewable after the shot), and a 14-bit ES mode (even if it's single shot only).

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