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Thanks.
Yes, that was basically my conclusion too, Rob. Metering is easier with
digital because a lot of the guess work is gone.
OTOH, there is another way to look at it too. A lot of digital shooters shot
a lot of film before going digital and already knew how to meter well. So they
just transferred their skills over to digital. Although one responder said
he'd never used film -- a first generation "never used film guy." That is bound
to happen now.
And some film cameras, like you mentioned, did not have matrix metering, only
spot metering or center weighted metering. So matrix metering was mentioned
quite a few times because it does a better job for people.
But people can draw their own conclusions based on the data.
Marnie aka Doe
I suspect a lot of this has to do with the Meter getting better, rather
than the move to digital. I wouldn't be shocked to find out that most of
the people who used to use handheld meters and now use the camera meter
were moving up from MF bodies or older film bodies that had less
intelligent matrix metering or just centre-weighted. For them, the
excellent matrix & spot meters on the *ists would be a major upgrade.
-Adam
