Whenever I shot Nikon, I used spot metering about 30% of the time. The reason for doing so as I shoot a lot of small birds and it meters in the area of that spot just like center weighted is on Sony, you’re metering exposure for the focus area only. In the case of having a small finch, for instance in the snow, if you were only using zebras, it would be very hard to properly expose that bird without bracketing or using a metering mode such a spot metering or center weighted metering and this has been my experience many times over the years. In fact I also have the movie record button programmed to AEL/hold which measures the brightness in the spot circle and locks your exposure only to that circle when pressed. I have this set up this way in case I’m in evaluative metering, and I need to grab it on the fly. I find that in sony cameras, the center weighted works better than spot metering, and it was the exact opposite on the Nikon cameras. Anyhow, just humor me and try it sometime because it works really well.