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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Overread" data-source="post: 1543017" data-attributes="member: 68571">Honestly I have very little experience of using different metering modes for shooting (bascially I left the setting alone best I can). But for macro I think it would depend what sort of shot you were commonly after - often for us we are shooting down into the ground and we have the subject filling a greater part of the frame, often not always in the dead centre. So as good as spotmetering is we really need a more wider considerate metering mode. But not fully wide otherwise when we get bits of sky or water and other reflective elements the whole exposure will go off the scale.If your working at more hunting active butterflies where the subject is not dominating the frame so much then spot metering (like iwth birds) would be the best approachThis is pretty much all cobbled theory from me though at the moment (don't even have spot metering to play with either on the 400d)</blockquote>