Useful Photography Tip #183: The Trick Your Sony Camera Has That You're Probably Not Using

Photographers who want better metering of their scene should know that Sony has a bit more science to their camera metering system than you'd think. Besides the more traditional center weighted, spot metering (which can be linked to the focusing point) and evaluative metering modes there is another another option called "Entire Screen Average." To figure out how that works, we asked Sony's Mark Weir about just how exactly the algorithms do their magic. "Entire Screen Averaging meters the entire ...