I've used the camera's built-in meter since I had a camera that had that (it was Kiev-19, Russian manual SLR with Nikon lens mount). At that point I learned to work with a point meter by pointing the center spot to the area by which I would like to do the metering, and if necessary do some thinking (e.g. compensate for reflective or bright backgrounds such as water or sky).
Even with the matrix metering available (ZX-5n, *ist DS), very often I've been doing the same, while switching to the center-point metering. Igor Fri, 10 Feb 2006 11:02:37 -0800 Adam Maas wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And some film cameras, like you mentioned, did not have matrix metering, only spot metering or center weighted metering. So matrix metering was mentioned quite a few times because it does a better job for people. But people can draw their own conclusions based on the data. Marnie aka Doe I suspect a lot of this has to do with the Meter getting better, rather than the move to digital. I wouldn't be shocked to find out that most of the people who used to use handheld meters and now use the camera meter were moving up from MF bodies or older film bodies that had less intelligent matrix metering or just centre-weighted. For them, the excellent matrix & spot meters on the *ists would be a major upgrade. -Adam
