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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pforsell" data-source="post: 669571" data-attributes="member: 7240">I agree with your analysis, but the 1 stop difference in exposure is still a bit of a mystery. It is bigger than any that I have seen in Nikon bodies. I just ran a controlled test between a 2001 Nikon D1H and a 2016 Nikon D5 and there is no appreciable difference in metering. Both meter and expose a fully white wall with almost uncanny precision as 12.5% gray, which corresponds to exactly 3 stops below saturation. The same 3 stops headroom has prevailed almost two decades of Nikon DSLRs.Pondering and guesswork, feel free to ignore:It is hard to say which of the cameras is metering correctly without doing a controlled test. In the sample images the middle of the wall shows a sRBG 175~180 which is almost exactly one stop above mid-gray. Mid-gray is  sRGB 119 and +1 stop is sRGB 180. So just evaluating these two images, the D610 meters correctly and D3300 one stop too hot, because the exposure settings that were chosen to these images were metered with the D3300. Or, more precisely, the metering result of the D610 would be correct, if it was done in CW or spot mode.Anyway, the metering mode used was matrix which adds too much uncertainty and randomness to this discussion.End of guesswork, think whatever you want of it.</blockquote>