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R5/R6 Metering

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Canon_Guy
Canon_Guy Senior Member • Posts: 1,486
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.

But it works exactly like this now. See my examples. Both shot at Av, Evaluative metering mode, Spot AF point. No settings changed between the two shots. First image is focused on dark trees in the bottom half of the image. Second shot focused on bright clouds.

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?

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