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<blockquote data-quote="desmobob" data-source="post: 778844" data-attributes="member: 45742">I'd guess a lot of (us) &quot;old timers&quot; are used to using the 80/20 center-weighted metering in the center 12% or so of the F2 or F3 viewfinder from the film days.&nbsp; Narrowing down to 8% makes it more towards a spot meter, but the camera is still only using that area's reading for the majority, not all, of the exposure calculation... the other 20% in the calculation comes from the rest of the frame.My opinion is that if you want to narrow things down that far, I'd just go to &quot;spot&quot; and know that the exposure is going to be based on exactly what is under that spot, not mixed with the other parts of the frame.&nbsp; I think with my DSLR bodies, I trust the modern Matrix metering 95+% of the time and if I switch away from that, it's to the &quot;spot&quot; setting.&nbsp; I don't know if I've ever taken a DSLR shot with the meter set to center-weighted.&nbsp; But that's just me and I'm no pro....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="desmobob, post: 778844, member: 45742"] I'd guess a lot of (us) "old timers" are used to using the 80/20 center-weighted metering in the center 12% or so of the F2 or F3 viewfinder from the film days. Narrowing down to 8% makes it more towards a spot meter, but the camera is still only using that area's reading for the majority, not all, of the exposure calculation... the other 20% in the calculation comes from the rest of the frame. My opinion is that if you want to narrow things down that far, I'd just go to "spot" and know that the exposure is going to be based on exactly what is under that spot, not mixed with the other parts of the frame. I think with my DSLR bodies, I trust the modern Matrix metering 95+% of the time and if I switch away from that, it's to the "spot" setting. I don't know if I've ever taken a DSLR shot with the meter set to center-weighted. But that's just me and I'm no pro.... [/QUOTE]

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