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>>74542 Signed. I posted something about this earlier.
With regard to metering, my usual practice is to set an approximate, guessed exposure, and then to tweak it by metering with the histogram... it's more accurate and lets one exploit this technique: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/expose-right.shtml
When I don't have time to screw with the histogram, I guess, and use center-weighted average. In manual mode at least, evaluative metering is a stupid idea. You don't know what the camera is actually metering or what it is thinking. Center weighted average, it's right in the name: the camera is metering what it is being pointed at, and taking other things into account.
On static scenes, spot metering and a personal bastardized zone system combined with the histogram.
After all that, I shoot in manual because, once more, I know what the camera is doing. I can't think of a better example than the one I used previously: Shooting in daylight, one notices a scene underneath a canopy, a few very noticable stops darker. The choices are:
1. Shoot as is. The image is ruined; it's totally unexposed beyond repair and dynamic range is screwed.
2. Shoot it properly exposed. If it's a street scene, as this theoretical situation I actually run into a lot is, the shutter speed will probably be too slow and there will be blur. This is what your Aperture Priority mode is going to do.
3. With knowledge of the progression of shutter speeds on the dial, the photographer in manual mode quickly flicks the dial to the proper shutter speed.
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