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<blockquote data-quote="nickt" data-source="post: 366229" data-attributes="member: 4923"><p>I agree with Aroy. Your camera is coming to a hard stop in S mode, it cannot open the lens any further to get proper exposure and thus gives you a warning. You say you are shooting darker scenes. I assume that you want your scene to look darker, just as you see it. Shooting a dark scene and wanting it to look as you see it does call for slightly underexposing it. And yes, the camera wants that scene to look bright and 'normal'. If the camera cannot achieve that bright daylight-looking picture because it is at a hard limit of aperture or shutter, you will get that warning.</p><p></p><p>Even though you are in a semi-auto mode like Shutter priority, you are in effect shooting manual by going beyond the warning. When you get that warning, you are stuck at your widest aperture and just manually upping the shutter to get the scene to darken and look as you see it. The cleaner technique is to use negative exposure compensation or just shoot manual. </p><p></p><p>It is easy to forget that you dialed in exposure compensation, ruining future shots. I prefer manual which is pretty much impossible to forget that you have it set. You can watch the meter and go slightly under to achieve a nice twilight scene.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nickt, post: 366229, member: 4923"] I agree with Aroy. Your camera is coming to a hard stop in S mode, it cannot open the lens any further to get proper exposure and thus gives you a warning. You say you are shooting darker scenes. I assume that you want your scene to look darker, just as you see it. Shooting a dark scene and wanting it to look as you see it does call for slightly underexposing it. And yes, the camera wants that scene to look bright and 'normal'. If the camera cannot achieve that bright daylight-looking picture because it is at a hard limit of aperture or shutter, you will get that warning. Even though you are in a semi-auto mode like Shutter priority, you are in effect shooting manual by going beyond the warning. When you get that warning, you are stuck at your widest aperture and just manually upping the shutter to get the scene to darken and look as you see it. The cleaner technique is to use negative exposure compensation or just shoot manual. It is easy to forget that you dialed in exposure compensation, ruining future shots. I prefer manual which is pretty much impossible to forget that you have it set. You can watch the meter and go slightly under to achieve a nice twilight scene. [/QUOTE]
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