How do you people use your multi- or single-spot metering?
Is there anyone who would like to share his/her experience, philosophy and
technique?
Personally, I'm still not sure how much area the spot-metering of my OM-4 is
actually measuring!..though it seems pretty small and accurate :)
Nevertheless, I use spot-metering quite often. For example, I may
spot-meter the brightest area of the last light of an evening sky and
expose on these values or overexpose upon those values to bring out the
contrast between that light and the dark spreading in the rest of the scene.
In fact, I might take several readings all around the critical area and
sometimes I measure dark/medium/light tonalities.
Christos
On 01/10/06, Hans van Veluwen <hans.van.veluwen@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> What puzzles me is why Olympus never seemed to recoqnize and repeat the
> strength of Maitani's multi spot metering design of the OM-3 and OM-4 in
> other cameras. Hands up everybody who thinks ESP matrix metering works
> better than
> multi spot metering. Faster, yes, but better? No.
>
> As a side note, I would be interested to hear how and when Maitani
> developed his ideas for the multi spot meter. Did Ansel Adams' zone
> system had anything to do with it?
>
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