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Metering tied to eye tracking

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JohnSil
JohnSil Senior Member • Posts: 1,013
Re: Metering tied to eye tracking
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StevenScholten wrote:

Although it is not mentioned in the manual I have the feeling (from my own experience) that this is true.

It is not a feauture you can switch on or off, but you see the exposure change when you move the focuspoint.

So you're saying that if one puts said camera on a tripod in heavily stratified light on the background or foreground and then moves the single focus point(I assume except in manual mode) from top right corner to bottom left corner, to center etc, each move will render a different exposure level in the camera's exposure bar? If so I was completely unaware that in any Canon other than the 1 models that the exposure would be weighted to the focus area or individual point, without moving the camera at all and nolt just radiating from the center as per the metering mode and its normal sampling areas! I just assume it would not change in manual mode?

John

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