Smallest Canon EOS with spot metering?

[tomfrh]

I have an EOS 30v which is great, however no spot metering.

I had an EOS 1v which had spot metering, but I found it too heavy and bulky for a 35mm camera.

What other EOS models have spot metering? I'm after the lightest one.

 

[Ricardo Miranda]

EOS 5 and 3 have spot metering.
Can't remember on the 5 if it is a proper one or just a "partial".
See the manuals for them or just Google.

 

[goros]

EOS 5 had three metering systems: spot, matrix and average. it also has an eye controlled focusing system: you look at one of the several red rectangles that you could see through the finder and the camera will focus to whatever is in that rectangle. And also a way to set the aperture for a desired DoF, also looking at two of these rectangles.

I think EOS 50 also had spot metering and was slightly smaller than EOS 5.

 

[Andy38]

Hello,

Eos 30 and 33 also have spot metering (but covering about 10 % only, same as Eos 5, 50/50E and 30V).

And they are smaller ((146,7 x 103 x 69) than 50/50E (152,5 x 104,5 x 71) and Eos 5 (154 x 120,5 x 74,2).

I don't know if you'll find better than your 30V...


Edit : Eos 100 (154,2 x 105 x 69,1) has a partial metering which covers a smaller area, about 6,5%.

 

[tomfrh]

Eos 30 and 33 also have spot metering (but covering about 10 % only, same as Eos 5, 50/50E a

I might stick with the 30v then. The 10% box isn't bad. True spot would be better, however I don't want to carry a great hunk of camera if using 35mmm

 

[EdSawyer]

You can take the battery grip off the 1V ,it's pretty small and compact in that mode.

 

[Poisson Du Jour]

Spot metering on EOS bodies are "reference spots"; a scene should not really be taken as metered correctly by a single spot reading unless you have the skill to seek out an area between bright and dark, or compare both areas with the spot (one at a time, taking note of the exposure scale on the right of the viewfinder for the graphical representation of differences) and then use manual. The EOS 5 had Partial, CWA and Evaluative and a very rudimentary spot function. Its metering system was descended from the EOS 1 but lacked the further matrice refinement that came with the EOS1N.

The difficulty with the early spot metering facility in the EOS bodies is that they remain fixed in the central zone of the viewfinder, with the exception of the EOS 1N having two selectable variations of spot in terms of size, but still transfixed within the central viewfinder area. In my case I have found that Partial metering can work much better than spot and it is not fixed to the central viewfinder area. Later EOS bodies improved on the geography of spot and partial, including the EOS 50. None of the cameras are particulary light (but they are still comfortable if you taken off the power drive booster E1 for example).