no not broken the camera ,my lad has figured out why the camera is driving me and a lot of other people mad ,probably as he's a canon man and i have said all along this camera performs more like a canon than a nikon .
not sure if the higher end nikons do it but heres whats going on ,the camera is actually takings its meter reading off the CHOSEN FOCUS POINT .and is giving completely different readings as illustrated below


d7100 focus on black top by blackfox wildlife & nature imaging, on Flickr



focus on black top iso800,f5.6. 1/640th sec



focus on green of bottle by blackfox wildlife & nature imaging, on Flickr

focus point moved half a inch down now focus point on the green plastic
iso 800 f5.6 .1/2000th of a sec .

i think this now puts it to bed as when shooting b.i.f if your focus point is not on the bird and takes in the sky etc the whole pic is out of kilter .
i,m afraid for the way i work as well in constantly changing conditions and light that matrix metering is the only one that works .at least now i know what to do and why i,m doing it .and this might help others


and now i suppose someones gonna pop there head up and say i already knew that ,!!±!!

Last edited on Fri Aug 23rd, 2013 16:24 by Eric