szhorvat
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Spot metering: how to move the spot?

Thu Jun 05, 2014 5:36 pm

The Pi camera supports spot metering (raspistill -mm spot). Where is the metering spot and how large is it? How can I move the location of the metering spot? (I'm willing to use any camera API that supports this if not possible with raspistill/raspivid.)

Use case:

I'm taking a time lapse during varying lighting conditions (day and night). I can use exposure compensation (-ev option) to get correct exposure under one particular lighting with the default metering, but this setting should be different for each lighting condition. Spot metering would solve this problem if I could move the metering spot above a part of the subject I know will not be changing.

Cross posted on SE, but no answer there.

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