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Photometry??
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Hi all,
On my Fuji Finepix S5600, there’s a setting called Photmetry and in this you can select: SPOT , AVERAGE or MULTI settings. :?
I’ve no idea what this does anyone able to help? :?
Thanks
Evan.
I’m not familiar with the camera you have but I would think they are for controlling your cameras meter.
Here’s an article which explains metering.
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/camera-metering.htm
cheers,
beefEvan,
Photometry is just Fuji’s fancy name for Light Metering. Of the three options I guess Spot is the most useful as this allows you to meter for the brightest part of the shot and gives you the most control.. The other two are basically overall metering levels that the camera will set.
I have to admit it’s something I never mastered very well when I had my 5600, but I was a real greenhorn then and didn’t understand the whole metering concept anyway. Not that I’m an expert now, but I do have a better understanding of it.
It does explain ot to a degree in the user manual…but like everything…practice makes perfect. Play around with all three and see which one gives you the best results.
Hope that was of some small help…
Cheers
Robbie
Photometry is just measuring visable light.with spot metering you can do it yourself but with matrix etc the
camera sets the exposure for you by averaging diffrent points around the picture and getting the advarage exposure which seems right for the lighting conditions it also mesure a few other things (i was talking about matrix metering by the way)
:DThanks guys sounds like I’ve got some experimenting to get up to! :D
I’ll have to read that article too(Thanks beef!) cos dis sounds complicated. :?
Thought I’d add that the article linked by beef was very helpful. I’m contantly improving my photos but confess light-metering is proving a sticky subject. Hopefully this’ll help.
Cheers :)
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