Metering mode for walk-about?

TelePaul · 10-10-2009 8:25pm #1

Just wondering what metering mode you guys use most - do you consider metering mode before taking each shot?

Borderfox · 10-10-2009 8:50pm

Walkabout I use evaluative, everything else get centre weighted average except for the odd spot metering moment

pullandbang · 10-10-2009 9:58pm

Something I learned last week at a beginners course in my local camera club - grass in Ireland is 80% grey! Apparently as far as the camera is concerned it's like using grey card, so meter off the grass.

AnCatDubh · 11-10-2009 8:51am

Assuming by walk about you mean just shooting from the hip - of the moment - sort of stuff then multi segment /scene metering. Frequently it will get it wrong which is where RAW may help. Walk about planned shooting ie. you see the scene and then wait for something to happen, you might go center or spot if the something to happen is very specific and you know it will happen.

kjt · 12-10-2009 2:36pm

Over the past year I've had my camera on spot metering for 95% of my shots. There's just something about spot that I love!

ThOnda · 12-10-2009 10:02pm

I wish I knew what mode it is

The one that measures the whole scene. And I have my thumb one the wheel that sets the exposure correction. So I see the scene in the viewfinder and correct the measured scene according to my needs and blindness. And the colour of the grass helps, because it hardly affects the exposure.

DaireQuinlan · 12-10-2009 10:17pm

I'm with Thonda on this, If I'm using my F100 then evaluative/matrix or whatever your brand of choice refers to it as. I shoot mostly aperture priority, but I shoot nikon so the aperture is set on the lens, and I have exposure compensation under my thumb. Occasionally spot if I'm doing portrait because I can tie the metering to the AF point.
If I'm shooting my FE2 then CW cos thats all its got.
If I'm shooting with the bronica then none at all :-)

Metering mode for walk-about?

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