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"Sabineellen" wrote in message
... Spot meter would have been nice, but it's not something I can't live w/o. Has no spot meter? Whoaa what an omission. Even my inexpensive P&S digicam has a spot meter option (as well as center-weighted and average). Why did they omit that? It couldn't have been hard or expensive to implement. It still has partial metering, 9% of the center portion. Not totally hadicapped. Spot metering usually measures the center 3.5% though. |
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Really. It's got three BIG holes: spot meter, RGB histograms (for both RAW and processed), and some way to get grid lines on the screen. Those wouldn't cost much to implement, but still - same street price as the 10D upon release and lighter and smaller to boot! -- http://www.pbase.com/bcbaird/ |
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"Sabineellen" wrote in message ... Spot meter would have been nice, but it's not something I can't live w/o. Has no spot meter? Whoaa what an omission. Even my inexpensive P&S digicam has a spot meter option (as well as center-weighted and average). Why did they omit that? It couldn't have been hard or expensive to implement. While many P&S digicams refer to a "spot meter", it is often not a very pin-pointed "spot" it uses. Often it is merely the center portion, but a rather large center portion...rather than true spot. |
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"Mark B." wrote in message ... "Chris Brown" wrote in message ... There are previews up on most of the usual sites now. I must say, Canon seem to have excelled themselves. The new AF system with the little joystick looks very cool, and the noise performance, being equal to or better than the 10D with smaller pixels is very impressive indeed. Looks like there are lots of interface improvements and other little niceties over the 10D as well. It certainly looks like more of an upgrade than the leaked specs suggested, but I'll still stick with the 10D. If it had a spot meter, I'd perhaps feel differently. Time to settle back down to waiting for a digital EOS 3. Update - according to a review by Rob Galbraith, the buffer is only good for 6 (!) images when shooting raw, compared to 24 for jpg. That's not so good. On the dpreview site, they have sound recordings available that play back a full 36 shots at full res jpeg without slowing at all. That's a lot more than 24. They did not record for RAW... |
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wrote in message
... In message , (Sabineellen) wrote: Spot meter would have been nice, but it's not something I can't live w/o. Has no spot meter? Whoaa what an omission. Even my inexpensive P&S digicam has a spot meter option (as well as center-weighted and average). Why did they omit that? It couldn't have been hard or expensive to implement. It's probably more difficult than on your P&S, because your P&S has live feed, and reading an 8*8 pixel spot on it would be trivial. The DSLRs need a separate sensor for metering than for exposing. -- John P Sheehy I wonder what percentage of coverage that spot meter in the P&S is... The Canon D30/D60/10D/20D has a 9% "partial" spot meter. My A2 had a 3%, IIRC, spot meter, and my 1n a 2.5%, again, IIRC, since I'm too lazy to toddle into the other room to get the manuals. My hand held Sekonic spot meter was 1%, which, I believe is the same as the Nikon F5. -- Skip Middleton http://www.shadowcatcherimagery.com |
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"Skip M" wrote in message news:WoBVc.86570$Lj.69964@fed1read03... wrote in message ... In message , (Sabineellen) wrote: Spot meter would have been nice, but it's not something I can't live w/o. Has no spot meter? Whoaa what an omission. Even my inexpensive P&S digicam has a spot meter option (as well as center-weighted and average). Why did they omit that? It couldn't have been hard or expensive to implement. It's probably more difficult than on your P&S, because your P&S has live feed, and reading an 8*8 pixel spot on it would be trivial. The DSLRs need a separate sensor for metering than for exposing. -- John P Sheehy I wonder what percentage of coverage that spot meter in the P&S is... The Canon D30/D60/10D/20D has a 9% "partial" spot meter. My A2 had a 3%, IIRC, spot meter, and my 1n a 2.5%, again, IIRC, since I'm too lazy to toddle into the other room to get the manuals. My hand held Sekonic spot meter was 1%, which, I believe is the same as the Nikon F5. All the high end consumer digicam spot meters I know about are true 1% spot meters. The one in the F707 works great. By the way, to add insult to injury, the 10D and 300D have SEVEN spot meters. They only work with flash, though, and on the 300D, the lack of FEC means that it gives the wrong exposure almost every time. On the 10D, people who understand spot metering get correctly exposed flash shots, if they remember to dial in the exposure compensation at every shot. David J. Littleboy Tokyo, Japan |
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Skip M wrote:
[] I wonder what percentage of coverage that spot meter in the P&S is... The Canon D30/D60/10D/20D has a 9% "partial" spot meter. My A2 had a 3%, IIRC, spot meter, and my 1n a 2.5%, again, IIRC, since I'm too lazy to toddle into the other room to get the manuals. My hand held Sekonic spot meter was 1%, which, I believe is the same as the Nikon F5. The Nikon Coolpix 5700 is 3% (the manual quotes 1/32 of the total frame). Cheers, David |
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Skip M wrote:
[] I wonder what percentage of coverage that spot meter in the P&S is... The Canon D30/D60/10D/20D has a 9% "partial" spot meter. My A2 had a 3%, IIRC, spot meter, and my 1n a 2.5%, again, IIRC, since I'm too lazy to toddle into the other room to get the manuals. My hand held Sekonic spot meter was 1%, which, I believe is the same as the Nikon F5. The Nikon Coolpix 5700 is 3% (the manual quotes 1/32 of the total frame). Cheers, David |
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