> I'm just curious: What kind of pictures do you shoot that would be > impossible without the use of spot metering?
That's not the point. The point is that the reason why I don't have spot metering is not a technical difficulty or a high price, but just a cheap marketing trick. Maybe I don't really need it, maybe I'm just paranoid, maybe I want it for no objective reason. I don't have to justify myself, I just want it - just like that. The point is that Canon forces me to buy the more expensive 1V or 3, although I don't want a magnesium-alloy weather-proofed body that costs more than 1000 dollars and weights more than 1 kg. The point is that my camera HAS the technical ability to spot-measure, but doesn't use it just because Canon considered that buyers of cheaper cameras don't deserve it. It's useless to say that Minolta's Dynax 4 has this feature, although it's a cheap camera which hardly competes with the EOS 3000. Or maybe I'm wrong? Maybe there IS a techical reason for partial metering using five sensors instead of one? > Actually, the FEL (flash exposure lock) on my Elan 7E seems to > use only one of the 35 segments for metering. This is so > annoyingly small that it often causes inaccuracies, especially > over emphasizing specular reflections. I noticed that evaluative metering uses a smaller zone around the current focusing point than partial metering. I don't know what kind of metering is used for flash, but I guess it might be the same (I mean with just one segment). * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
