EXPOSURE – Metering System

14-Segment Honeycomb-Pattern Metering

This is the camera’s standard metering mode and is appropriate for most photographic situations.

•14-segment honeycomb-pattern metering uses information from the autofocus system to set the metering pattern according to the position of the main subject. The light metered by each segment is then evaluated to determine the degree of spot-lighting or backlighting in the scene.

Subject in the center

 

 

Subject on the right

 

 

 

•In manual focus mode with any lens except the ‘D’ series lenses, the cam- era switches to center-weighted metering. The metered exposure may be different between autofocus and manual focus.

Spot Metering

When pressing the spot AE-lock button, only the spot metering area will be used to calculate the exposure.

Spot metering area

EXPOSURE – AE-LOCK

Spot-AE Lock

Spot metering uses only the center honeycomb segment shown by the spot metering area in the viewfinder. You can lock the metered exposure without locking the focus. With a high or low key subject, an object away from the subject can be used to set the shutter speed and aperture. The exposure remains locked until the spot AE lock button is released.

1

Place the spot metering area

 

 

 

on the area to be metered.

 

 

• Make sure the light falling on the

 

 

 

metered area is the same as the light

 

 

 

falling on the subject.

 

 

Spot metering area

 

 

2 Press and hold the spot AE

DETAILED

OPERATION

 

lock button.

 

 

 

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will be displayed in the

 

 

 

viewfinder to indicate the exposure

 

 

 

is locked.

 

 

Spot AE lock button

 

 

 

•When using flash. pressing the spot-AE lock button sets the flash mode to slow-sync (p.94).

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