There are 2 ways I use it, Christos:
1. AUTO: I spot meter on a mid-tone, a highlight and a shadow.
2. MANUAL: I spot meter on a shadow and close it down 3 stops (or on
a highlight and open it up 2 stops).
3. AUTO or MANUAL: I spot meter on a highlight and press the
Highlight button, or meter on a Shadow area and use the Shadow button.
Oh, that's 3 ... ;-)
Chris
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C M I Barker
Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
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On 3 Oct 2006, at 11:31, Christos Stavrou wrote:
> 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.
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