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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneF" data-source="post: 421993" data-attributes="member: 12496">Spot metering does Not give "perfect" exposure, even of the spot ... anything but that...   Same as all any reflected meter can do,  Spot metering merely makes the spot come out as middle gray intensity.  So results very much depend on the spot selected, and it does require some thinking.  If you Spot meter on a caucasian face, the standard rule of thumb is to add about +1 EV compensation, to prevent the face from being middle gray tone.What Spot metering does do is to exclude surrounding influences.... the opposite of Matrix which seeks them out.  My notion is that Center Weighted is usually the best overall compromise.</blockquote>