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Metering, Matrix

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Using the shooting menu: 74 Menu Guide-The Shooting Menu Metering Choose a metering method suited to the composition and lighting conditions. METERING Matrix Spot Center-weighted Spot AF area Option How it works When to use it Matrix Camera compares measurements from 256 areas of frame with library of Recommended for most situations. typical compositions to set exposure for entire frame. Spot Ensures that subject in metering target Camera meters area is correctly exposed even if background shown by square in center of monitor. Only about 1/32 is much brighter or darker. with autoexposure lock ( Can be used 20) to meter of frame is metered. off-center subjects. Camera meters entire Classic meter for portraits; preserves back- frame but assigns weight ground details while letting lighting con- Center- of 80% to area in center ditions at center of frame determine ex- weighted of frame occupying rough- posure. Can be used with autoexposure ly ¼ of total. lock ( 20) to meter off-center subjects. Spot AF area Links spot metering to active focus area when auto or manual focus area selection is in effect ( 93). Use instead of autoexposure lock to meter off-center subjects. Matrix metering is used when focus-area selection is off. Metering Metering is shown by icons in the control panel and shooting display. No icon appears in the shooting display when (Matrix) is selected. When spot AF-area metering is selected, a icon appears in the control panel. Spot metering target Control panel 1/125 F5.6 8M Shooting 15 display 79

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Menu Guide — The Shooting Menu
Using the shooting menu:
74
Metering
Choose a metering method suited to the composition
and lighting conditions.
METERING
Matrix
Spot
Center-weighted
Spot AF area
Option
Matrix
Camera compares mea-
surements from 256 areas
of frame with library of
typical compositions to set
exposure for entire frame.
How it works
Spot AF
area
Links spot metering to ac-
tive focus area when auto
or manual focus area se-
lection is in effect
(
93).
Use instead of autoexposure lock to me-
ter off-center subjects.
Matrix metering is
used when focus-area selection is off.
Recommended for most situations.
Spot
Camera
meters
area
shown by square in center
of monitor.
Only about
1
/
32
of frame is metered.
Ensures that subject in metering target
is correctly exposed even if background
is much brighter or darker.
Can be used
with autoexposure lock (
20) to meter
off-center subjects.
Center-
weighted
Camera
meters
entire
frame but assigns weight
of 80% to area in center
of frame occupying rough-
ly ¼ of total.
Classic meter for
portraits; preserves back-
ground details while letting lighting con-
ditions at center of frame determine ex-
posure.
Can be used with autoexposure
lock (
20) to meter off-center subjects.
When to use it
Metering
Metering is shown by icons in the control panel and shooting display.
No icon appears
in the shooting display when
(
Matrix
) is selected.
When spot AF-area metering is
selected, a
icon appears in the control panel.
Control panel
Shooting
display
Spot metering
target
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F5.6
F5.6
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125
125
1/125
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