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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jaff" data-source="post: 1404523" data-attributes="member: 42340">Same here. Birds that usually fly overhead like raptors really benefit from this too. The other time I use manual is on overcast days where the lighting is pretty much the same everywhere. Av is still capable of getting it very wrong on days like that. Basically I use Av when I'm feeling too lazy to keep fiddling with manual and if I'm moving around to different locations. I find manual is great for when you're camping out in the one place for any length of time, like hide work.Once you get accustomed to what lighting requires what settings you can guess the right exposure nearly every time, or damn close to it. Something that I thankfully found quite easy to pick up because of my digiscoping which I also do in manual.Keep plugging away Max and I'm sure you'll soon be reaping the rewards, especially for those tricky situations when you just 'know' that Av will screw it up. :t:Adam</blockquote>