What a difference a setting makes!!

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I have been giving my s5700 some hammer since I got it and was a little disappointed with my photos mainly due to the silver cloud cover we have been having over the past few days resulting in over/under exposure.

Sat down and looked through the manual yet again and decided to change the light meter setting from "spot" to "average" and what a difference!.

I`m not sure what the "multi" setting is used for and can only guess that the "spot" setting is perhaps for use when either indoors or in poor light.

Please feel free to enlighten me as the manual is very vague to say the least.

regards to you all Ash
 
Spot meter just meters off a small area at the very center of the frame (or maybe the focus point) so if it is pointing at something dark it won't car about the rest of the picture but just meter for the dark bit (resulting the the rest of it being over exposed).

Evaluative metering takes into account the whole of the frame and tries to expose it accordingly.
 
Its all about Exposure and which part of the frame the camera looks at :

Spot : Centre only. Good if you have a main subject that is important and everything else isn't - e.g. faces (so useful outdoors as well, e.g. if there is a bright sun behind someone so you expose to the face not the sun...)

Average & Multi : These will take a number of readings, and apply some kind of magic mystery pixie dust (no, really...) to decide what to use. Tends to come up with a more "balanced" exposure, but you loose control due to the pixie dust. One of the options may link exposure point to focus point (but again, how that point is determined may be a mystery...)


You may not be any more enlightened now - sorry...
 
flossie said:
Its all about Exposure and which part of the frame the camera looks at :

Spot : Centre only. Good if you have a main subject that is important and everything else isn't - e.g. faces (so useful outdoors as well, e.g. if there is a bright sun behind someone so you expose to the face not the sun...)

Average & Multi : These will take a number of readings, and apply some kind of magic mystery pixie dust (no, really...) to decide what to use. Tends to come up with a more "balanced" exposure, but you loose control due to the pixie dust. One of the options may link exposure point to focus point (but again, how that point is determined may be a mystery...)


You may not be any more enlightened now - sorry...
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I used to be a keen 35mm man back in my navy days so am not an absolute novice in photography but definitely a beginner when it comes to digital, my first digital camera was a fuji A330 point and shoot so didn`t learn much there.

I have noticed pretty quickly the limitations of my bridge camera, it is definitely a jack of all trades and a master of none. one point in particular is the amount of F-stops available, it is like having a 200mm lens on my old
me-super.
 
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