----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Maas" Subject: Re: FWIW - New Canon
>>>What is a "partial 9% at center" metering mode. Is that Canon-speak >>>for spot metering? >> >> >> Yup. > Umm, nope. > > Canon does do spot metering on their higher-end stuff (Pro film bodies > and all except the cheapest DSLR's). Partial metering is their sop to > the low-end users for ecluding basic functionality. In the low end market, a real spot meter is a detriment, since the user base doesn't know how to use it. Canon is actually pretty smart to put a loose spotmeter (actually a heavily center weighted meter) into their low end bodies. They've been doing the partial metering thing for years, generally around 10% of the image. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
