Metering Mode for landscapes

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What metering mode do you use for landscapes?

I tend to use matrix metering (whole scene) where as a friend uses spot metering and i was just wondering what the the pros and cons of each, and what you use?
 
Spot and chimp for digital, spot or reflective (depends how light I'm travelling) and bracket with film.
 
Spot metering. You only have to wave the camera around a scene and you get a good idea of contrast and dynamic range within it. on the GH1 spot metering, -1 1/3 / -1 2/3 EC with ND8 grad was about perfect without having to actually consciously watch what I was metering. On My OMs I ave to take a bit more care because the spot is much larger, but I never bracket with spot metering on film, there's no need as I've already metered around the whole scene and know what I'm getting.
 
Alan.. if I had the confidence in my abilities I would bracket less. I'me finding I get better with practice, and there's nothing like FP-100C for it's narrow latitude and giving near-instant feedback on my metering skills.
 
I tend to spot around the frame, work out what grad I need etc, then put the appropriate shutter speed into manual mode and fire away.

If I'm in a hurry then evaluative works well enough, especially teemed up with AE lock.
 
I use matrix as to not let spot metering darken the shadows in areas i don't want it to.
Also in Manual for full control.
 
I used to use spot metering on my first DSLR 4yrs ago but the technology seems to have come on leaps and bounds, I find multi-segment (evaluative) on my new Pentax K5 is excellent in pretty much every situation and so far I've not found the need to resort to spot metering again - having said that the K5 also has an excellent dynamic range so this no doubt makes a big difference too

Simon
 
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Matrix normally only use spot if the lighting or subjects tricky, but I often use incident light reading from a hand held meter.
 
spot...there will be some part of the scene which you need to expose for
if its the sky then you may have to compromise a bit
i use spot and exposure lock the focus separately
if its not ok on the chimp review
take other spots
what i should do really though is use the camera spot as a meter setting and then put those on manual
then i can roll the speeds off or on and take multi shots that way
but i dont
 
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