don't know why this is taking me so long to understand but....


Let's assume you're metering an average scene with a trustworthy camera - 40D or better - and let's ignore the quirks of specific bodies for the purposes of this question please.


So an average scene, nothing predominately dark or light. When I meter this shot (regardless of mode) and the EV graph's indicator is in the middle, at zero, that tells me...what exactly?


is it saying, "Shoot at this exposure to capture the scene as close to reality as possible."


or is it supposed to tell me something else entirely?


Is the EV graph really only useful to JPG shooters?


Thanks for any thoughts you'd like to share.