Learn how your camera meters in different modes too. The camera will try to render the scene with midtones as much as possible, so if the scene is dark, the camera will overexpose the 'proper ' value to lighten it to a mid-tone; similarly, if it is a light scene, the camera will underexpose it to render it as a mid-tone. The camera user needs to interpret the meter reading in the light (sorry, bad pun) of what the desired result is, ie which bit of the scene the user thinks should be a mid-tone.
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