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<blockquote data-quote="flyboy" data-source="post: 153280" data-attributes="member: 14371">Hi,First time on here and thought I'd ask a question.I have been trying to use Shutter Priority, I understood this to be semi-automatic mode i.e the user selects the shutter speed and the camera selects all the other settings in order to get a good exposure.However I was trying to use this to catch a blue tit going in and out of a bird house in my garden. I set the setting to S and adjusted the shutter speed to 1/1000. (take into account that this was outdoors on a sunny day)Immediately I got he message 'subject too dark' I adjusted my shutter speed down and the warming dod not go away until my shutter speed was 1/60... when I was using sport setting I was getting 1/500!!!!!My question is how does this work???? If it not semi-automatic how do I need to set up the camera for it to fire off shots with a cracking shutter speed to capture birds etc moving at speed yet still expose the shot correctly.....Any help or guidance would be great.... every book I read says (and I paraphrase) &quot;adjust the shutter speed and the camera sets everything else up&quot; and this is not my experience.....Any help or advice gladly received.Thanks</blockquote>

[QUOTE="flyboy, post: 153280, member: 14371"] Hi, First time on here and thought I'd ask a question. I have been trying to use Shutter Priority, I understood this to be semi-automatic mode i.e the user selects the shutter speed and the camera selects all the other settings in order to get a good exposure. However I was trying to use this to catch a blue tit going in and out of a bird house in my garden. I set the setting to S and adjusted the shutter speed to 1/1000. (take into account that this was outdoors on a sunny day) Immediately I got he message 'subject too dark' I adjusted my shutter speed down and the warming dod not go away until my shutter speed was 1/60... when I was using sport setting I was getting 1/500!!!!! My question is how does this work???? If it not semi-automatic how do I need to set up the camera for it to fire off shots with a cracking shutter speed to capture birds etc moving at speed yet still expose the shot correctly..... Any help or guidance would be great.... every book I read says (and I paraphrase) "adjust the shutter speed and the camera sets everything else up" and this is not my experience..... Any help or advice gladly received. Thanks [/QUOTE]

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