Interesting. I suffer from nearly the opposite malady. Using an 8
Gig card, I seem to be overly conscious of taking extra shots. For
instance, even though I keep my camera in fast drive mode , if I
accidentally take more than one exposure, I invariably and reflexively
say, "Dammit!" and immediately delete the second and/or third shot. I
never even check to see how many shots I have left on a card.
And, while I will spend three or four different shots on a given subject
from varying perspectives, those accidental exposures always feel to me
like a wasted shutter actuation. Don't ask me why. There's obviously
no rational reason for it.
As for metering, I still have so much to learn about it that I find it
daunting. I've tried spot metering and matrix metering so far, and
generally shoot in aperture priority. And, up until a couple of days
ago, I've always shot with highlight correction on (unknowingly
sacrificing the lower end of my ISO range in the process). So, it seems
I'm going to have to do a good bit of relearning on my camera before
I'll ever know which type of metering I should be using in any given
situation.
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On 11/21/2010 8:10 PM, Jeffery Smith wrote:
That said, spray and pray is becoming more of a norm for me. After all, when my
high capacity memory card keeps telling me that I have 999 exposures left, then
what the hell. But I wish that this were not the case. If the digital camera
would give me a sweet spot ISO from which I had some confidence that exposure
over the entire frame could be salvaged no matter what the camera chose for me,
I could spend a lot more time composing and moving around, thinking more about
the subject.
For now, I have decided never to use spot metering on a dSLR. The area being
spot measured looks great, but that doesn't mean I can salvage the blown
highlights.
Jeffery
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