Practice question · Put in order
Arrange these metering methods from the widest area measured to the narrowest.
- Partial, covering the central few per cent
- Centre-weighted
- Averaging over the whole frame
- Spot, about one degree
Hints
- The first method makes no distinction between parts of the frame.
- One degree is a very small patch at any working distance.
Show the answer
- Averaging over the whole frame
- Centre-weighted
- Partial, covering the central few per cent
- Spot, about one degree
Why
Narrowing the measured area does not make the reading more correct; it makes it more specific. A spot reading answers a precise question about one patch, and the photographer still has to decide what that patch should look like in the print, which is the subject of the zone system in the second unit.
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