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dave said:When I discovered metering modes, it made a huge difference in how I take photos, and the quality of them.

Metering is where you tell the camera which part of the frame it should consider when it decides what kind of exposure it should make.

The default on the camera is usually a "center weighted average" where it tries to figure out an average exposure based on everything in the center of your photo. That's fine for most photos but it's not to have really fine control over the exposure in situations like this.

Dave -- first of all, thank you very much for jumping in here and helping us tyros out. Secondly, how can we tell whether our camera has the ability to use metering modes? At least in those words, my manual doesn't show anything. I have discovered, however, that it is possible to select shutter speeds and aperture values. I don't know enough to want to try that yet, but I'm wondering if metering modes has any relationship to this? MR