Canon PowerShot G1 X Mark II review – Metering
When photographing outdoor scenes, the camera has a bias towards ensuring images appear brighter rather than darker, so to preserve detail and prevent clipped highlights in bright areas, such as the sky, I found myself dialling in around -1EV to -2EV at times to compensate. With evaluative mode selected, metering is tied to the active AF point, and despite there not being a button on the body dedicated to adjusting the metering mode, evaluative, centreweighted and spot are easy to find from the quick menu that’s loaded from the func.set button. The histogram loads at the same time as the rule of thirds grid and virtual horizon indicator, offering a live visual representation of whether the highlights or shadows are at risk of being of being clipped.
