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<blockquote data-quote="mitchb2" data-source="post: 25178" data-attributes="member: 6827"><p>Hello, everyone. I'm brand new to photography and I'm confused. We bought a D3100 for Christmas. I've never used any manual controls before. </p><p></p><p> I'm reading the book "From Snapshots to Great Shots" which is dedicated to this specific camera. I'm trying to understand Aperture Priority and Shutter Priority. I understand conceptually what they do and when to use one or the other. But last night I spent about 2 hours reading the book and playing with the camera. If I'm in A mode, and the flash is open, no matter what I set the aperture to the shutter stays at 1/60. Is this normal? And it also locks the ISO to Auto. If I close the flash, then the shutter speed changes as I point towards areas of different brightness, and I can set the ISO value.</p><p></p><p>I'm going to take a Saturday intro to DSLR class, but I was hoping to get some insight before then. I must be misunderstanding the fundamentals.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mitchb2, post: 25178, member: 6827"] Hello, everyone. I'm brand new to photography and I'm confused. We bought a D3100 for Christmas. I've never used any manual controls before. I'm reading the book "From Snapshots to Great Shots" which is dedicated to this specific camera. I'm trying to understand Aperture Priority and Shutter Priority. I understand conceptually what they do and when to use one or the other. But last night I spent about 2 hours reading the book and playing with the camera. If I'm in A mode, and the flash is open, no matter what I set the aperture to the shutter stays at 1/60. Is this normal? And it also locks the ISO to Auto. If I close the flash, then the shutter speed changes as I point towards areas of different brightness, and I can set the ISO value. I'm going to take a Saturday intro to DSLR class, but I was hoping to get some insight before then. I must be misunderstanding the fundamentals. [/QUOTE]
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