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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Marcel" data-source="post: 369398" data-attributes="member: 3903">Well, things have changed quite a bit. Most modern cameras (except pro models) have "scene modes". When you use the "Snow scene" for example, you are telling the camera that it should expect to over-expose the 18% grey a bit. When you use normal A-S-P-M modes, the camera has NO WAY of knowing what the actual scene looks like, it's just trying to have detail in the medium range. A point that the article says also is that this exposure compensation is more important and applies when you shoot in raw where you have the latitude to correct the exposure in post processing.So, in the end, it's the photographer's job to do the processing (correct exposure and post-processing) to reproduce what he/she saw or wants to produce. The cameras and light meters are just artistic tools that can't do anything by themselves.</blockquote>