>>4213856No you use the spot meter. It meters on your focus point. The skill you have to learn is what to meter on. Once you figure out how to identify a midtone- ie there are known areas on a persons face you meter on etc you are set.
You eyes will fool you if you try to identify perfect exposure just looking at a screen. Even in photoshop when editing, curves will show you where any point in the image is on the histogram. This knowledge also helps in editing as you know exactly what point in your image should be directly in the middle of the histogram for perfect skin tones etc.
Ask yourself this, when you are editing your images, do you ever have to move your exposure slider at all? Because if you do your system is failing. I shoot with a DSLR and never have to move my exposure slider at all as I learnt the initial skill of identifying in an image what exact point should be middle grey.
That skill is also worth its weight in gold if you ever get into film. Which incidentally is what drove me to learn it in the first place.
