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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 251181" data-attributes="member: 9240"><p>What I know is what I've read, and experience seems to back this up.  It makes sense that in certain situations where lighting is not at all uniform that matrix metering might defer to the subject to make decisions on which direction to err since it's impossible to meter for the entire frame.  I suspect that on a hazy day outside with fairly uniform light you'd see much less variance as you move the focus point than on a bright, sunny day with areas of deep shadow.  Put it this way, if you're shooting someone in a house and they have their back to an open window, would you rather have the window overexposed or the person underexposed if you only had one shot?  Sometimes the average leaves you no good compromise, so in those cases I can see why it will lean toward a focal point to assure that at least this part of the shot is metered reasonably.</p></blockquote><p></p>