Hi all,
Sorry if I have not explained myself very well here, I know what I mean, but not sure if I have described it very well, but this is something I have tried to find information on for some time now and feel sure someone here will know the full and complete answers to this.
I have a 5D MkII, I use in camera spot metering mainly, which I believe works by always metering the centre of the full image view, but when I line up a shot, then manually focus and meter, then go into live view mode and zoom right in on the screen and move down the screen view to tweak the manual focusing at one third into the frame for maximum DoF, it then tells me that my original metering is now wrong and needs resetting. So my first question is this - how does the 5D MkII meter in live view mode when zoomed in full on the screen, but away from the centre of the originally metered and not zoomed in frame? Is it still in spot meter mode but now at the centre of the zoomed in part of the screen view instead and hence tells me I need to readjust the exposure? Also outside of live view, if I do use AF and select a different AF point other than the centre AF point, does it then spot meter to that or still use the centre of the frame?
Last question - I have seen a video where a photographer uses his high end Nikon and he seems able (or appears to describe it as such) to spot meter any where in the frame no matter what his AF or manual focus point is elsewhere in the frame, is this a function of the Nikon where you can select where in the frame of the viewfinder that you wish to meter and not just where your AF point is? And if so, is the 5D MkII doing a similar type of thing when I zoom in fully with live view?
Sorry for the complex and rambling set of questions here, but I have great faith that someone here will know what I am asking and the answers.
Thanks in advance.
Photobloke