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Working with focus points and metering

Working with focus points and metering - 5D Tutorial

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Working with focus points and metering

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Now that we've gone over exposure modes, I would like to return for a moment to the subject of focus points, because there's something you need to know about how exposure behavior changes as you start manually selecting focus points. Consider this scene that I have here. I have this dark film projector over here; these light flowers over here. I have the Mark III set to automatically select a focus point, and I am set for evaluative metering. So I'm going to just take a picture here, and let's take a look at what I got. It's not any kind of photographic masterpiece, but it is well exposed. Notice that I have not overexposed the flowers, and I have got a little detail here on the projector. I don't know where it chose to focus; I am assuming it chose to focus over here. If it was choosing wrong, then I might want to override that, and manually select a focus point. So I'm going to do that now. I'm just going to get in here, and change my focusing mode to let me pick a single focus…

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