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Metering tied to eye tracking

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Alastair Norcross
Alastair Norcross Veteran Member • Posts: 9,874
Re: That would be the evaluative metering

PicPocket wrote:

drsnoopy wrote:

Evaluative metering biased towards the focus point can also be a problem. For example if you are manually focus stacking a landscape - say two exposures, one for foreground and one for distance - moving the focus point changes the exposure, often by 2 stops. You have to remember to switch to manual.

That will be true for any kind of auto-metering. If you are stacking in changing light, you need manual metering between shots to be sure (even if auto metering was used prior to the shot to come up with the settings).

If you use the focus bracketing feature in camera, I think the metering is locked on the first shot.

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