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Unless you're truly nitpicky, there's no real difference at least in the way the terms are used these days.
Historically, the endings make reference to slightly different processes -- Photography vs photometry is about collecting the light vs measuring it; however spectrometry pretty much had to collect photons from the beginning so the line between the two is blurred.
Outside light-measurements, the -metry ending appears more common in practice (as in "mass-spectrometer") but there, too, usage is not always consistent.
BTW there's a third term, spectrography, which is also used mostly interchangably with the other two these days.
(Note that there are in principle IUPAC norms and any one peer-reviewed journal may just have an editor that is hidebound enough to care about such subtle distinctions -- however using any one of the terms will generally be perfectly understood by any practicioner in any of the various fields and a quick scan of the titles of presentations at the last meeting of the American Physical Society shows a fairly even distributions of the terms even in reference to the same experiment).
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