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I'm trying to better learn how to use the on camera light metering on my D200. It seems to me that the auto metering either over exposes or under exposes in different situations but I don't have a good feel for it at all. I read through "Understanding exposure" and he has some tricks that he refers to when he meters exposure like metering against the sky to one side of the sun or stopping down 2/3 from green grass but all of those seem like tricks that just come from years and years of experience. Is there some kind of quick reference or something that I can use to get better exposure readings? Right now I dont use the light meter at all and instead take a shot of the scene with highlight mode on and then dial it in until I'm about 2/3 stops bellow the point where the highlights blow out. Then I verify that the RGB histogram has a good range. When I compare the settings I'm shooting at to what the meter reads I often find that the meter is way off and wants me to either over or under expose. Based on what I read that is normal I think but I wanted to see if you guys had some tips to dial in the exposure quicker without a couple test shots.