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D600/D610
Inconsistent exposures
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<blockquote data-quote="WayneF" data-source="post: 335319" data-attributes="member: 12496"><p>Well, Spot metering is hardly "perfect". <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> It only meters so that this spot should come out middle intensity tone. This has nothing to do with any "accurate" intensity that the spot ought to be. Whether the spot is actually black or white or gray, it will come out middle gray. </p><p></p><p> So we have to choose the correct spot, or else know how to compensate it. That is a huge difference, and something to know.</p><p></p><p>But yes, Spot metering does totally ignore everything else in the picture, and yes, Spot is absolutely the worst choice for novice point&shoot metering of ambient light. Spot metering is an advanced technique, and lots of knowledgeable thinking is required.</p><p></p><p></p><p>One exception - of a different kind... Flash indoors with most TTL BL flash units (like SB-700, SB-400, camera internal flash, Yongnuo TTL flashes, etc)... Any of those TTL flashes without an overt TTL BL / TTL menu themselves will be TTL BL (Nikon is a TTL BL system).</p><p></p><p>Spot metering changes their metering from TTL BL to be TTL, which is more appropriate for indoor flash. Flash never does spot metering, it has its own larger center area it always uses. But indoors (assuming the desired low ISO), the ambient light is normally low level, insignificant, we are using flash instead. Then when insignificant, there is basically no meaningful metering of the ambient light indoors, Spot or otherwise. So typically, with indoor flash, Spot metering only changes the flash out of TTL BL mode, to TTL mode, which usually usually gives a better flash level indoors.</p><p></p><p>Outdoors for fill flash in sunlight, the default TTL BL mode is about "perfect".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WayneF, post: 335319, member: 12496"] Well, Spot metering is hardly "perfect". :) It only meters so that this spot should come out middle intensity tone. This has nothing to do with any "accurate" intensity that the spot ought to be. Whether the spot is actually black or white or gray, it will come out middle gray. So we have to choose the correct spot, or else know how to compensate it. That is a huge difference, and something to know. But yes, Spot metering does totally ignore everything else in the picture, and yes, Spot is absolutely the worst choice for novice point&shoot metering of ambient light. Spot metering is an advanced technique, and lots of knowledgeable thinking is required. One exception - of a different kind... Flash indoors with most TTL BL flash units (like SB-700, SB-400, camera internal flash, Yongnuo TTL flashes, etc)... Any of those TTL flashes without an overt TTL BL / TTL menu themselves will be TTL BL (Nikon is a TTL BL system). Spot metering changes their metering from TTL BL to be TTL, which is more appropriate for indoor flash. Flash never does spot metering, it has its own larger center area it always uses. But indoors (assuming the desired low ISO), the ambient light is normally low level, insignificant, we are using flash instead. Then when insignificant, there is basically no meaningful metering of the ambient light indoors, Spot or otherwise. So typically, with indoor flash, Spot metering only changes the flash out of TTL BL mode, to TTL mode, which usually usually gives a better flash level indoors. Outdoors for fill flash in sunlight, the default TTL BL mode is about "perfect". [/QUOTE]
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