I for one have no interest in Matrix metering!!! What I want, eventually is a body that will spot meter. Yes you can buy a spot meter but it seems so much more convenient to have it on the body. I think I will eventually move up to F4s for this feature. I have to say, however that for many reasons I LOVE my FE2s. Did you know that the pro bodies such as the F3 and F4 don't lock the AE when using mirror lock up, the only way to do it is to shoot with the mirror locked up in manual. If your trying to stick with a certain Fstop and bracket by say a half stop, this is very inconvenient since manual speeds are not stepless on these bodies and AE speeds are. With the mirror pre-fire used to lock up the mirror (FE,FE2, FM3a)the AE mode locks in whatever exposure was selected when the mirror flopped up. Not only that but you have to manually return the mirror on the pro models. This may not matter much to you but I'm a landscaper and I shoot 90% of my shots on a tripod at slow speeds with the mirror locked up (I use Velvia, and usually stopped way down for depth of field, often in the early morning or late evening and often with a polarizer or warming filter or ND grad so I rarely SPEED UP to a 30th.) )
Just some thoughts.
Tom Wilson