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<blockquote data-quote="WayneF" data-source="post: 223902" data-attributes="member: 12496"><p>Probably not. I am a strong fan of Center metering myself (your subject above was in the center), but normally there is negligible difference. Esp with flash, which the camera always meters in the center, no matter what metering mode you set. The metering modes are for ambient light (continuous light).</p><p></p><p>The problem is the light meter has no human brain and no human experience, and cannot recognize the scene and know what it means. It only sees a blob of light, with no idea what it is or how it should be. It cannot know if the subject is dim and white, or bright and black, it is just a blob of light. So all it can do is to expose to place it in the middle. And middle is often right, but not always, and any non-average scene will confuse it. Simply the only way reflected meters can work. When we realize that, then we know what to do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WayneF, post: 223902, member: 12496"] Probably not. I am a strong fan of Center metering myself (your subject above was in the center), but normally there is negligible difference. Esp with flash, which the camera always meters in the center, no matter what metering mode you set. The metering modes are for ambient light (continuous light). The problem is the light meter has no human brain and no human experience, and cannot recognize the scene and know what it means. It only sees a blob of light, with no idea what it is or how it should be. It cannot know if the subject is dim and white, or bright and black, it is just a blob of light. So all it can do is to expose to place it in the middle. And middle is often right, but not always, and any non-average scene will confuse it. Simply the only way reflected meters can work. When we realize that, then we know what to do. [/QUOTE]
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