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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bird_Huszar" data-source="post: 3189973" data-attributes="member: 129367">Update: I tried the birding setting, which I'll probably use most often.  Seems like it is more balanced, but then I'll be better able to tell once I get home.  The shots I took yesterday also seemed fine on the camera preview but when I looked at them on the computer, I was shocked how dark they came out.I also bought a new memory card, a much faster one.  Now the 7 frames / second burst mode takes 5 seconds instead of 9.  I was using a class 4 memory card before and now I have a class 10 which writes as fast as 90mb/second.Which makes me wonder why it takes 5 seconds.  If each picture is about 3.5 megabytes and we multiply that by 7, we get 24.5 megabytes...let's round it off to 30 megabytes...per second.  So in theory even a 30 mb/s memory card should be able to handle these pictures in one second.  Why does a 90 mb/s take 5 seconds?</blockquote>