Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's the "weighted" part of centre-weighted which has always bothered me. When I use my eyes to view a scene, I see with equal sensitivity everywhere, but the camera meter sees 75% in a circle at the centre of view, and 25% in the remaining field. My eyes can't do that, and I have no idea what the camera is doing. I would rather have equal metering across the whole field, or better yet, in a restricted zone as with the M6. I may not understand what matrix metering is doing, but the smarts behind it usually does a good job. There are no smarts behind centre weighted. dan c. At 02:46 AM 14-03-01 -0800, Mark Rabiner wrote: >> >I have a lot of experience with the center weighted vs matrix option from the >extensive use of my Nikon 8008 in the early 90's. >The reason why you'd want the center weighted option is because you want the >metering to be center weighted!!! Why? >This is how most cameras work and is the most obvious and still the most useful. >With matrix you don't know what it's doing. It's metering from all over the >place and it's decided you're shooting a Mary Smith by the sunset. You could >really be shooting Harvey the steam shovel by a low pressure sodium light and >the situation could require a much different light balance. >That said i gonna say that at least with old Nikons, matrix metering usually works. >What if you want to take readings off different areas? >What if you want to control what you are doing? >Then you leave it at center weighted metering and take readings and make >decisions based on those readings.