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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jim M." data-source="post: 1223389" data-attributes="member: 60675">Sorry to hear you are having problems.  But I think the comments above suggested at least the possibility that there might be problems such as you are experiencing in low light situations.  However, you might want to check to make sure you have limited the extent to which the camera can change the ISO setting for auto exposure purposes.  I try to limit this so the camera will instead choose a slower shutter speed or wider aperture rather than a more generous ISO.  And for bird photography, I now use aperture priority mode and select the widest aperture, which gives me the highest possible shutter speed.Regarding indoor or nighttime photos, I have never tried those (as I indicated above), but there are various scene modes which should help out with them -- you may already be using them of course.  And it should be possible to use manual override if the camera is refusing to take a picture (though I do not recall the details).Hope this helps,Jim</blockquote>