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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ghostly Vision" data-source="post: 3334657" data-attributes="member: 11550">Hello allI bought my SX60 about 6-8 weeks ago and have been using it on auto, in the absence of much time to practise, or to look up settings.However, I found this thread and have used settings recommended on another thread (! I thought this thread was supposed to be for that ), and messed about today given the local Hoopoe was sitting stationary for long periods. The light was poor and the distance about 50 feet.Tried with the digital 1.6 and 2x zoom, and without. Also did a bit of video and used the software to do a grab. Also tried manual, aperture priority and shutter priority.To be honest, there doesn't seem to be a lot of difference between the settings in this situation. Obviously manual and shutter priority enabled me to get faster shutter speeds, but that meant lightening them in PS at home, because the aperture was at 6+. ISO I kept at 250-400.All photo's were taken using a tripod, which is good enough for my big scope so is nice and steady.Below are a pic taken as a still originally, and a video grab.There is only minor sharpening on the first one, and no editing on the second.Overall I'm pretty pleased with this - it is certianly very versatile, and is lighter than my scope/digiscoping set-up, and also better than carrying scope and DSLR.Whilst the pics aren't DSLR quality, they are plenty good enough for this amateur, who likes to actually watch the birds as well as photograph them.</blockquote>

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