60Menu Guide—The Shooting MenuMeasuring Light: MeteringThe options in the metering menu determine howthe camera sets exposure.OFFSetMETERINGMETERINGSpotMatrixCenter-weightedBKOption When to use itHow it worksMatrix Best choice in most cir-cumstances.C o m p a re s m e a s u re -ments from sixty areas offrame with library of typ-ical compositions to pro-duce optimal exposurefor entire picture.SpotEnsures that subject incenter of frame will becorrectly exposed even ifbackground is very brightor very dark.Camera meters area atcenter of frame equiva-lent to about 1/60 of total.Metered area shown bysquare in monitor.Center-weightedClassic meter for por-traits; preserves back-ground details while let-ting lighting conditions atcenter of frame deter-mine exposure.Camera meters entireframe but assigns great-est weight to area in cen-ter of frame occupyingabout 1/15 of total.At settings other than Matrix, the current meter-ing setting is indicated by an icon in the monitor.FINE AUTO1632
