Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/14
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> 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.
It all depends... When you are used to Nikon's Center Weighted Metering,
you won't understand Canon's one, which is absolutely different.
As far as I remember, 25/75% cited by you are correct for Nikons
and have nothing to do with e.g. Pentax or Olympus metering....
Whan you are used to, it doesn't matter at all... I use a Lunasix 3,
which is center weighted. I have no idea how many percent so and
so,why should I bother? After all those rolls I can predict its
behaviour in every case...
And now I hardly use a meter. One quick metering at the beginning
and then adjusting by experience. Actually, in many cases I don't
use it at all, guessing exposure (yes, for slides too :)
..of course your mileage may very greatly.. :)
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