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Message: <blockquote data-quote="njlarsen" data-source="post: 3296213" data-attributes="member: 7427">Bill, One of my proposals would be to go to your manual and read about the setting S on the selector wheel. The S means shutter priority, so that you choose a shutter speed and not the camera. following that, find a well lit target for shooting, and see how you are doing with settings of 1/200, 1/400, 1/640, 1/800, 1/1000 second shutter time. The shorter times should make your trembling less of an issue, so this is to find out where is the range where you can get reasonable results. I generally use 1/400-1/600 on my GH2 with a lens that has a little more reach than your camera. You may need faster (1/800?), but then again, you may not.Caveat: you may also have to go into the manual and find out where to set the iso. Some photographers prefer to do that manually depending on the situation, I personally like to let the camera work for me: it have my pana GH2 set for auto iso with the maximum iso limit set at 3200. Initially set that limit very high. Once you get a feel for the camera, then you can say that the highest iso settings might produce noise to a level that is unacceptable for you, and lower it. If there is not enough light and the Iso setting is limiting, then the overall image becomes too dark. Once that is done, then it might be time to look a the settings for AF (autofocus) and measuring in your manual. There is a way to set the AF focus point to cover less of the frame, that should make it more likely that you and the camera agree on what is the main target within the frame. For light measuring, there is spot, center-weighted, and some kind of all frame setting. The reason your second shot is relatively dark on the bird is the very light background: with a center weighted or spot setting, there should be more focus on getting the bird right, even if that means that the background become a white blur. I think that is enough for now. Niels</blockquote>

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