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Message: <blockquote data-quote="joannec" data-source="post: 1429160" data-attributes="member: 30076"><p>Thanks guys for your really helpful suggestions to my questions.  Sorry for the slow response but I've been out most of the day birding with the camera.  I've tried to put into practice what you've have recommended.  I've lowered the exposure compensation, lowered the ISO, turned off the IS.  I've also experimented with the amount of zoom in the camera and have decided 30-50% is better than full zoom but.....still they are blurry and nothing like the feather detail that others get.  Are they just too far away, I wonder? Or would a shutter release cable help? Here are the best efforts from today; all are taken in AP except the fulmars which are in kids/pets (which I assume is canons name for sports mode as there isn't one called 'sport'.)  And what is metering mode and which setting should I have it on?</p></blockquote><p></p>