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Message: <blockquote data-quote="STM" data-source="post: 620525" data-attributes="member: 12827"><p>I am not kidding at all, I almost never use any of my cameras in automatic. My favorite camera of all, my Hasselblad, does not even have a meter and the CDS meter in my 45 year old FTn has been dead for years. The CDS meter in my F2 is starting to get a little inconsistent as well, but it is 40 years old after all. That is what an incident and 1º spot meter are for and I use both all of the time. In high contrast scenes, an incident reading will be better 99% of the time than some over-complicated Matrix metering. When I have time to really take to meter, I still use the 1º spot meter and Ansel Adams' Zone System and set the manual exposure accordingly. Adams' Zone System can be used just as well with a digital camera, if you are familiar with the dynamic range of the sensor.</p></blockquote><p></p>