Everything you need to know about DSLR metering: What is evaluative metering? • What is matrix metering? • What is centre-weighted metering? • What is spot metering?
Understanding how your camera “sees” light is an important part of taking good photos.
Whenever you half-press your camera’s shutter button, it takes an exposure reading measuring the brightness of the scene. How it measures the exposure, and which parts of the scene it gives priority to, is determined by the metering mode you choose: evaluative/matrix, centre-weighted or spot. Here’s how each one works...