Sanjay
Just some subjective comments with regards to the two systems.
I have used the Nikon system for a number of years and I am very impressed
with their matrix metering. While shooting wildlife and birds most of the
time you do not have the time to fiddel with meter settings. A good meter is
therefore invaluable in this regard. It handles pure white very good but it
sometimes overexpose black, I would guess, 0.5 of a stop or so.
I have recently bought an EOS 3 and my only complaint at this stage would be
that the evaluative metering is not up to par with the matrix metering from
Nikon. I battle with snow scenes (not that we get snow very often in South
Africa). I haven't yet shot white birds with it. With regards to black,
burned logs in late afternoon sun or in the shade, is a real problem while
dark skin colors comes out perfect. I have also come across one or two
other situations where it gave to much weight on the background light
intensity and therefore not metered correctly for the foreground.
I would actualy appreciate some advise on the metering of snow scenes with
the EOS 3 as I am going to Nepal in October. Is spot meter +1.7 the best or
is there another preferred method?
Thanks
Herman du Plessis
> While I have heard that eval. metering is pretty good, does anyone have
> information on what it is? I can understand Nikon comparing the scene
> information with 30000 entries in a database. How does Canon evaluate the
> correct exposure?
>
> Does anyone have information on comparisons between matrix metering of
Nikon
> and evaluative metering in EOS?
>
> Regards
> Sanjay
>
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