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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jamesan" data-source="post: 357592" data-attributes="member: 31838">READ THISOkay....My mistake...BUT....My values that I told you were wrong. I had forgotten what I had actually done, so let me start over.Let me retitle this thread "Shutter Priority questions"  lolMy wife was using the D50 camera at a soccer game for the second game in a row , so in an attempt to keep it simple for her, I thought I would set it to shutter priority and let the camera pick the aperature. The previous week I had done the same thing but with a 70-300 f4-5.6 zoom. The pics did not come out great and they were grainy at 1600 iso. This week I gave her the tamron 17-50 f2.8.I think the problem lies when I tried to set it up. I knew that with this lens I would have to crop to get good pics, so I changed from the grainy 1600 iso to 800iso. I thought that would work since I had seen sport pics on the web at 400iso, f4 or so and 1/1000 shutter that looked great. I then go to see how fast a shutter speed I could get. I was under the assumption that with shutter priority whatever shutter speed I picked, it would just keep changing the aperature down as far as 2.8 to keep the pictures bright. I set it to about 300-400 and the pics are dark. a 200 speed pic is slightly dark but very viewable. I end up setting the camera to about 150 just to make the picture bright. I figured that if the pictures were dark then it must have adjusted the aperature down to 2.8, but now I see that it doesn't really do that. I went back and looked at one of my dark pics and the aperature is F32!What good is shutter priority?</blockquote>

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