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Exploring metering modes

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Exploring metering modes

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Accurate metering is critical to getting good results from your camera. Fortunately, metering technology is now so good that your camera should yield correct exposure 80 to 90% of the time. To help ensure that your metering results are good, your camera offers several different metering modes. Your Mark III shows the current metering mode right here. This icon will change as you change metering modes. The default, and the mode that's currently being shown by this icon, is evaluative metering. In evaluative metering, your image is divided into a grid. Each cell of the grid is metered, and a bunch of complex calculations are performed based on all of those different bits of information to come up with a good overall metering for your scene. Evaluative metering is probably where you'll stay most of the time, but you do have three other metering modes. To change them, press the metering/white balance button, and it's pretty easy to remember this, because this icon corresponds to your…

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