I wonder if anyone uses it?
So I wonder why newer cameras don't have this feature while they all have the spotmeter.
I suspect it wasn't used as much as anticipated, and/or that it made more sense from a usability viewpoint to improve in the area of matrix metering and similar 'evaluative'/'smart' modes that took only a single press of the button to get the job done.
The Leicaflex first model and standard model had spot metering, no average meter.
So I wonder why newer cameras don't have this feature while they all have the spotmeter.
Newer Nikons since F-801 have evaluative Matrix Metering with data that were gathered from thousands of pictures including the tricky ones. The engineer decided that it is very capable of doing the computation for the photographer.
I asked because although I do use spotmetering I never do the average.
The Olympus OM-4 and OM-3 were the first to have built in spotmeter (I think)
By 'the average' you mean the multi-spot feature resulting in the camera computing the average of the measurements? Or average/evaluative "automatic" metering with no spot metering involved? The latter I only use on cameras that have nothing else; i.e. older, more basic SLR's. On the T90 with multi-spot the camera automatically calculates and average and you can then easily shift that up or down using two buttons on the back of the camera. All measurements remain visible on the metering scale, so you can actually see the whole thing go up and down until you're happy with where it is. To me, it almost feels like shifting the entire image curve up and down; it's very intuitive. The only thing I can't wrap my head around is why they abandoned this system.
Mamiya had SPOT and AVERAGING metering in the same SLR.
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The Olympus OM-4 and OM-3 were the first to have built in spotmeter (I think) and they can do an average of several readings. All modern cameras have spotmetering but none I know has the averaging function. My handheld spotmeter has the function but I never used it. I wonder if anyone uses it?
By 'the average' you mean the multi-spot feature resulting in the camera computing the average of the measurements? Or average/evaluative "automatic" metering with no spot metering involved? The latter I only use on cameras that have nothing else; i.e. older, more basic SLR's. On the T90 with multi-spot the camera automatically calculates and average and you can then easily shift that up or down using two buttons on the back of the camera. All measurements remain visible on the metering scale, so you can actually see the whole thing go up and down until you're happy with where it is. To me, it almost feels like shifting the entire image curve up and down; it's very intuitive. The only thing I can't wrap my head around is why they abandoned this system.
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