Wed Jun 27, 2007 3:37 pm
Spot metering just means that the camera only uses a small percentage of the frame in the middle to determine exposure. I don't have it right in front of me, but IIRC there's a dial near the viewfinder with three different choices. The spot metering is the on that has a circle with nothing around it, the circle that has 2 lines curving around it is centerweighted, which is like spot but with a larger area, the last one is matrix, which looks at the whole frame.
Nikon D300, D200
Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D, 55mm f/1.4 micro, 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G DX, 80-200 f/2.8D
Apple PowerBook G4, MacBook Pro
Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop CS3