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Re: Appropriate metering?
In my limited experience there are no hard and fast rules. Matrix does an amazing job all things considered and is definitely the setting I switch my camera to when I put it away.
There are lots of ways to deal with any of the examples I am giving and none of them are wrong. Centre weighted can be useful for a dominant central subject like a portrait or action. Matrix is useful when you want to get a good balance for the whole scene like a landscapes or street photography. Spot is useful where your subject is in tricky lighting, it doesn't matter too much about the rest of the image and does not fill much of the frame. It's also useful as a base reading for manual shooting or before your apply compensation. Also to take a grey card reading. Useful in backlit or incandescent subjects like birds in flight or candles.
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