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EXPOSURE METERING AND CONTROL

Exposure metering methods

To adjust to the prevailing lighting conditions, the situation, or your

working method and compositional ideas, the Leica Q provides you

with three exposure metering methods.

Setting the function

This menu option can be opened in two ways, either directly with

the

FN button (as long as it has been conﬁgured for this function,

see page 157) or using menu control. The setting that follows

also varies.

With the

FN button

Press the

button (multiple times)

The three variations are set up in an endless loop.

• The set metering method appears in a window below in the

middle of the monitor image.

It will disappear after 4s, further steps to change settings can

only be taken within this period of time.

Using menu control

Select

Exposure Metering

in the menu and

then choose the desired setting in the sub-menu

Multi-ﬁeld metering -

With this metering method, the camera automatically analyses the

brightness diﬀerences in the subject and, by comparing them with

programmed brightness distribution patterns, arrives at the likely

position of the main subject and the corresponding best exposure.

As a result, this method is particularly suitable for spontaneous,

uncomplicated, and yet reliable photography, even under diﬃcult

conditions, and therefore for use in conjunction with automatic

program mode.

Center-weighted metering -

This metering method allocates the highest weighting to the center

of the image ﬁeld, but also records all other areas.

Particularly when used in conjunction with metering memory lock,

it allows the exposure to be selectively adjusted to particular parts

of the subject, while simultaneously taking account of the entire

image ﬁeld.

Spot metering -

This metering method is concentrated exclusively on a small area

in the center of the image.

It allows exact measurement of small or tiny details for precise

exposure - preferably in conjunction with manual setting. For

backlit pictures, for example, you normally need to prevent the

brighter surroundings causing underexposure of the main subject.

The much smaller metering ﬁeld with spot metering enables these

subject details to be selectively evaluated.

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