Metering -What does everyone use?

[LegMaker]

I wanted to get some ideas of what different people use for metering settings and in what situations. What works best for you? Your experiences?

6 Zone Evaluative Metering


Partial Area Metering


Center Weighted Average Metering

[CyberDyneSystems]

Well different circumstances call for differetn metering.

I tend to use partial a lot as it is the closest thing to spot that the 10D has and I shoot a lot of birds. I want the subject to come out.

But I switch back and forth between
"Partial" and "Evaluative" when I am shooting an entire scene.

I think I have used Center weighted twice.

[PacAce]

LegMaker wrote:
I wanted to get some ideas of what different people use for metering settings and in what situations. What works best for you? Your experiences?

6 Zone Evaluative Metering


Partial Area Metering


Center Weighted Average Metering

Before I got my 100-400 zoom, I used to use partial metering a lot because my bird subjects filled only a small portion of the screen and I wanted to make sure I exposed for the small bird and not the overwhelming background.

But now that I can get "closer" to my avian subjects with the 100-400 zoom I've switched to evaluative metering almost exclusively.

I may use partial metering every now and then when it's called for but I hardly, if ever, use center weighted metering.

[Vegas Poboy]

Ditto, for the way CDS does it. I like to focus in on my subject for most of my shooting. But on landscapes and other large groupings, I use evaluated.

[openspace]

Ditto to what CyberDyneSystems said...

Evaluative for grand scenics, partial if focusing in a specific subject. I also use partial a lot to meter different parts of a scene to get an overall feel for light differences (the amount of stops) across the image.

It helps me to determine whether I need to use a neutral density filter for example, or determine whether or not I can even adequately capture the image in question without losing too much in shadow or blowing out the highlights.

[w10d]

So far I stick with Partial, but if I want to turn the 10D into a P&S, I use Evaluative.