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    THIS MONTH: METERING

    Jan 08, 2018 2 minutes
    Source: METERING PATTERNS Digital cameras typically offer the same core trio of metering modes. Each of these ‘reads’ a different proportion of a scene.

    SPOT METERING This meters a small area of the frame around the AF point in the centre or the AF point that’s achieved focus. (It varies depending on the camera.) Spot metering offers the most precise meter ‘reading’.

    A throwback to the heydays of film photography, this meters the entire image, but makes a pre-determined weighting of the exposure towards a large

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