This camera has four metering modes. How to use it at ordinary times?

Photography is the art of light and shadow.

Canon cameras generally have four metering modes: evaluation metering, partial metering, spot metering and central key average metering. Learn these four metering modes and basically all cameras are connected.

Evaluation photometry

Evaluation measurement is the most commonly used measurement mode. In the basic shooting modes (scene automatic mode, creative automatic mode and special scene mode), the camera adopts evaluation metering by default. In this mode, the camera will divide the picture into 3 15 for average metering. This mode is most suitable for shooting daily life and scenery.

Partial measurement

The metering area of partial metering accounts for 8% of the picture. When the subject occupies a small proportion of the screen and you want to get accurate exposure, you can try to use this metering mode.

Central key drawing photometry

In the central focus average metering mode, metering will be biased towards the central part of the viewfinder, but it will also take into account the brightness of other parts. The central focus average metering mode is an advanced metering mode, and the intermediate metering mode is usually used for portrait photography.

Spot photometry

Spot metering is also an advanced metering mode. The camera only measures a small part of the central area of the picture (that is, the small area around the center of the optical viewfinder is 3.5%), so it has quite high accuracy.

When the brightness difference between the subject and the background is large, the spot metering mode is most suitable for shooting. Because the area of spot metering is very small, in practical use, the focus can be directly set as the central focus, thus realizing the synchronization of focusing and metering.