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Metering tied to eye tracking

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PicPocket Veteran Member • Posts: 5,897
Re: That would be the evaluative metering

Alastair Norcross wrote:

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.

Since the above post mentioned manual stacking, I also assumed the underlying shots can be taken independently. At least it sound like a process where photographer is making decisions rather than camera. If someone is going through that much creative control, I would say better take the same control on exposure too

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