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This is a 21st century camera - it has a meter and aperture priority, they do work and it's not necessary to mess with M mode. I rarely went near it in the 4 years I shot with this camera as my main body. The histogram is nice to have, but as the rear LCD is almost unusable in sunlight hardly a solution.
hamims wrote:
Never used the spot metering before. I know how to do it, but never did. Is there any particular time when spot metering works better than evaluative?
If you are asking this, then you shouldn't be attempting the use of spot metering - but I urge you to get a book about exposure and read it. At the moment, you do have to trust in evaluative.
I usually used centre-weighted metering on this body, so can't comment on how well evaluative works.
What I think your problem might be: In Av, the large control wheel on the back controls "exposure compensation". The camera doesn't make this very obvious when it's off zero., and it's stupidly easy to bump. Use the camera in the "ON" rather than the hockey stick position, and instead use the dedicated exposure compensation button on the top plate if you need it.
EDIT - I just realised I could check EXIF with the software I have on this machine, did so on two of your very dark shots (slanted one in the first post, and fluoro guy in background) and saw "Exposure bias 0" - so I now think that theory is wrong.
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