What is your most often used metering system..

Spot, Partial, Evaluative,, etc.. and why do you use this one?

Which do you think is best for night shots (city scapes), portraits, night clubs, scenic, etc...

Many thanks for the opinions.

Depends on the situation I guess. I mostly use evaluative mode, but there are times when the subject that I want to meter fits the metering space of say, partial metering or spot metering, and then I'll use those.

Most of the times, however, I'm using M mode and varying my shutter speed and aperture on my own as the situation changes.

Spot metering, but I shoot in manual mode. If I'm using flash in ETTL mode, I change it to Evaluative.

Evaluative, all the time. I'd rather know one system well then mess around with 2-3 that I don't know well.

I wouod think it doesn't make any difference which one you use as long as you understand the resukts you will get in different situations and compensate accordingly.

bohdank wrote in post #8132642
I wouod think it doesn't make any difference which one you use as long as you understand the resukts you will get in different situations and compensate accordingly.

Probably true, except for spot mode--people trying to use spot metering in one of the semi-auto modes will probably get poor results.

In night clubs (dark with lots of dance lights, neon, etc...)
I have gotten "ok" pics with spot mode.

Lately though my regular pics haven't been "all that" and I thought I would change the mode to see if that helps some of the trouble spots.

spot in manual mode and constant lighting.

evaluative when in changing light.

I tend to shoot CWA, with spot thrown in when necessary. I never had very good results with evaluative. It seems like it would be great on paper, but in real-world shooting I haven't liked the results.

Brett wrote in post #8133457
I tend to shoot CWA, with spot thrown in when necessary. I never had very good results with evaluative. It seems like it would be great on paper, but in real-world shooting I haven't liked the results.

Can you give examples of what you were not pleased with?

I almost always use an incident meter for ambient exposure and I tend to use evalutive with E-TTL.

It varies depending upon the situation, but I assume evaluative is the most common for me, if I would look at all my pictures.
Last image taken was with partial.

There are different ones???

Usually three or four, depending upon your camera.

Evaluative most of the time, and spot metering when I am trying to achieve certian exposure effects.

apersson850 wrote in post #8134360
Usually three or four, depending upon your camera.

I was being facetious...