Why should you use manual exposure with your camera, do hard calculations, and nitpick at the smallest details? The answer lies in the fact that an automatic camera can mess you up no matter how good it is, no matter how much money you paid for it, etc. Your camera only "knows" what you or someone has "told" it either when it was manufactured and its programs created or by changing its settings yourself. So if it can't meter in light so dim or it is "fooled" by tricky lighting conditions what can it do for you?
An expert photographer is a much better judge of exposure than an ordinary person. Their decisions are not based on subjective appearances, but instead by their years of experience. They would know better than a camera what needs to be done to gain the correct exposure value under difficult conditions. Not only this, but also how would a camera know whether you wanted a high-key exposure, a murky, mysterious underexposed cave picture, or something else. Usually a typical "proper" exposure will give you something to work with, but there is infinite room for personal variances and ideas of a sunset picture for example.
Camera makers have improved their cameras more and more over the years making revolutions in photographic technology. But there will always remain that element of personal human interaction in the development and execution of photography that will let there remain unfathomed depths of creative potential in the future of photography.
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