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Message: <blockquote data-quote="stevetb" data-source="post: 1367521" data-attributes="member: 45611">Cartman, perhaps there is some sort of feeding station near you - maybe at a local nature reserve - where you can get close to the birds once the weather improves.DOC,I wasn't arguing the merits of Tv vs Av - just that using one against the other won't somehow mean that you will be allowed higher shutter speeds.I understand agree with what you are saying about Tv mode and I know they are different things - I never argued that they were the same. It is possible to quickly expose properly with Tv mode, just at the expense of your aperture settings, which, as you mention, affect the DOF.Just for the benefit of Cartman, who is probably getting confused -Tv does allow you to correctly expose, but is  quite impractical for bird photography for the reasons DOC mentions - after all, Tv is an exposure mode.</blockquote>