on 2012-01-28 19:49 Larry Colen wrote
I'm certain that if I'm wrong someone will correct me. The metering mode in our cameras picks a spot to meter on, and sets the exposure for that point at midpoint.
i understand that better cameras (unless you set them for spot or average) to do some kind of evaluative metering; they try to identify common scenarios like a bright sky and maybe some trickier exposures, but they may not be smart enough to figure out you are pointing the camera at a sunlit snowbank
i'd like to think i know better than the camera, at least sometimes, and can read a certain amount of the scene myself, and i use that to second guess the camera (then the histogram helps me see how well i second-guessed); it's a bit of a dance
[regarding "expose to the right"]
Not entirely unlike how Dolby noise reduction works
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