genie,
With 9-area-focusing, the camera auto picks the subject/s to focus. It displays one or two of these areas, and calculates the best focus point. With this, you do not need to move your camera. This is unlike spot focus where you point at the subject to focus, half-press shutter, and move camera to fame your pic. And yes, the speed of multiple metering and 9-area-focusing is pretty fast. Or should I say very fast. Speed differences are not noticeable between multiple and spot metering. The VE2 works very well. Very happy with it!
rainman,
Have you read the popular reveiw yet. Here are the sample pics posted by the reviewer. Help yourself to the cropping.......
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As for my pics, I used multiple metering for 'even' exposure. Notice the first pic, it was a bright sunny day. I wanted to be able to expose the lower part of the building; the 'shadow' part below the semi-circular platform. The multiple metering works in this sense. In fact the whole pic was easily well exposed by the camera!
I also wanted the whole building to be evenly focused, instead of only either the top or bottom is focused. So I used 9-area-focusing and let the camera calculate the best focus point.
Another example is the 'Corridor' pic. Same idea with it. It's well exposed isn't it?
Lastly, I find 'exposing and focusing' these pics were rather easy when using the multiple metering and 9-area-focusing features. All these shots were done once only. No need re-shot to select a good pic!!!
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