Watcher said:
No, but does Canon has spot metering on 1D, 1Ds 1DMkII? Guess they did spend the effort there, didn't they? I guess they don't have time to put that in your 300D after spending all the time on disabling the functions in firmware....
BTW, all Nikon DSLR has true spot metering in ALL modes. The D70 for example can spot in any of the standard mode without restriction. Canon pro bodies are similar.
You still don't get it do you? Both Ptwong & I own a 300D. So what camera body would you refer to in such situation? Any sane person will understand that.
As I have mentioned earlier and will say this again: Since 300D doesn't have spot metering, I'll treat the partial as spot. Is that hard to understand, dude?
Besides, my A70 has spot metering built-in and that's the reason why I brought up in much earlier post that I got so used to the term spot metering.
Does that automatically make it a PRO Digital Compact? :bsmilie:
Watcher said:
They are not comparable. At best, the partial metering is a poor substitude. By being rhetorical? Please. That is instead being inaccurate at best, misleading is more appropriate.
If you say:' They have different names and thus they are different in some ways.' I would have wholeheartedly agree with you. If partial metering is such poor substitute, I would have noticed a hell lot of difference when shooting at the same subject using my A70 (spot) and 300D (partial). Or perhaps my eyes are not as PRO as yours?
Watcher said:
The numbers (1.8% vs 12%) came from the review off Amateur Photographer. Search for it yourself. The concept is similar but in actual shooting, it is totally different between 1+% and something closer to 10%.
'The concept is similar but in actual shooting, it is....' ??? What talk you? Also, please make up your mind what figure you want to use. At one point it's 1-2%, another time 1.8% and finally you settle it as 1+%... ROFL!
Since you insist on your figures, I'll just stick to mine. Instead of being a snob to ask you to search it yourself, I'll humbly provide the URLs that I got the figures from:
http://www.photozone.de/4Technique/metering.htm#spot
Note the spot/partial instead of separate column for each? I guess this guy must have been misleading me all the while!
Oh, one more from Phil Askey about spot/partial metering:
http://www.dpreview.com/learn/?/key=metering
Noticed the title Spot (partial) Metering? Boy, Phil must have conned me right from day 1!
Watcher said:
If you're trying to make this a C vs N thing again, try harder. I just said, as ptwong said, "300D don't have spot metering, only partial metering." I brought in the fact that Canon has true spot metering on its pro bodies but the 300D does not.
You don't have to echo this again Polly since Ptwong has already pointed it out very clearly and I have have understood him. Please read again my earlier posts.
Have I started any 'C vs N' before? Have I said anything like 'C is better than N' in any posts?
Watcher said:
And if you said they are they same, then the Canon engineers wasted time in implementing spot metering. Where did I mention in my post of any other brands? You are the one who goes on a personal brand flamewar, with the inferiority complex and having the need to try defending the 300D
Have I accused you of mentioning any other brand? Which post and which paragraph?
Have I named any model except 300D in any earlier posts? Dude, if you are on drugs, please don't attempt to reply any threads.
FYI, I was on the verge of getting myself a D70 but upon weighing the pros and cons, I decided to go for 300D and am very very happy with it.
I can pay for 1D MKII or D2H or whatever 'pro' body you can name in CASH but have chosen not to because I feel that I am not a 'pro' and will only buy exactly what I need.
I would only envy people who make the best out of their systems and that's real pro.
Besides, no judge will take what camera system a contestant used into account when judging his photo. It's the quality of the picture taken that is decisive.
Now that you've mentioned several times 'pro' or 'pro bodies' and now 'personal brand flamewar' and 'inferiority complex', it's your class conciousness that's driving you to want to believe that I was trying to defend 300D in any way.
It's your self inferiority that made you budge into a thread that was discussing a totally different topic. :nono: