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Light Metering: ESP or SPOT
Under default settings, the camera uses center-weighted metering (“digital ESP
metering”) to determine the exposure. If the background is much brighter than your
subject, however, results with ESP metering will be too dark (underexposed), since
ESP metering considers light levels throughout the entire image area. If you are
shooting a subject against a much brighter background, therefore, you may want to
change the metering mode to spot metering. When you use spot metering, the camera
exposes for the center of the image only.
For details about how to use the menu, see “Using the Shooting
menu” on page 113.
ESP (digital ESP):
• This is default. The camera calculates
exposure by taking a weighted average of
the light levels throughout the image area.
SPOT (Spot metering):
• The camera measures the light at the center
of the image only.
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Advanced Shooting T
echniques
[
OFF
]
[
SPOT
]
[
HQ
]
[
AUTO
]
CHANGE
END
WB
[
]
Select from menu...
Select
to go to the meter
selection screen.
OK
SET
BACK
ESP
SPOT
Make the setting...
Indication on monitor
If spot metering is selected,
the monitor displays the spot
metering mark.
