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Fixed shutter in A-mode

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Augenblick

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Hi everyone,

I hope someone of you can help me out. When I take photos in A-mode (aperture) the shutter is permanently on 60 and only the ISO adjust.

I can also see a P symbol between
 
Follow up ;-). Just recognized that it only happens on one lens - the 50mm 1.8. I can manually change the shutter, but in all automodes it max 60 or slower (50,25). Could this be a failure of the lens?

Best Daniel
 
It would be helpful if you would mention the camera model you are using ;-)
In my experience in A mode, my S5 does not want to go slower than 1/60 but will increase ISO instead. When there is plenty of light it should go to faster shutter speeds.
There may be a P symbol at the top of the screen which indicates that peaking is on. This is unrelated to your exposure (mode).
I can't imagine it is lens related, but who knows. When all fails, you may try a reset of the camera. It is a menu option, somewhere under the wrench symbol I would guess.
 
Thanks, Michael. It's bothon the S5 and S5IIX. The lens is Lumix S 50mm 1.8.

I noticed the P, but also thought it must be focus related apa
 
And another update - everything is back to normal. Sry for bothering you.

I am shooting in an indoor enviroment and thought something is terribly as the shutterspeed would only go to 60. I guess the is programmed to work like this.

Thread can be closed :)
 
Michael_too said:
In my experience in A mode, my S5 does not want to go slower than 1/60 but will increase ISO instead. When there is plenty of light it should go to faster shutter speeds.
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Augenblick said:
I am shooting in an indoor enviroment and thought something is terribly as the shutterspeed would only go to 60. I guess the is programmed to work like this.
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Maybe there is a way to change this behavior in the settings. Try to turn off ISO automatic or look whether you can change the minimum shutter speed somewhere.
 
dirk said:
Maybe there is a way to change this behavior in the settings. Try to turn off ISO automatic or look whether you can change the minimum shutter speed somewhere.
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You are correct of course, the reason it wouldn't go slower is because I allowed it to increase ISO. When you fix ISO it only has shutter speed to vary, and then it may drop to a slower speed to get a correct exposure. It's just that 1/60 seems to be a "special number" for the camera to which it defaults unless you constrain other parameters in such a way that it is "forced" to change it. I wonder if it takes focal length and/or I.S. into consideration when picking shutter speeds. Maybe I should test that one day.
 
Michael_too said:
You are correct of course, the reason it wouldn't go slower is because I allowed it to increase ISO. When you fix ISO it only has shutter speed to vary, and then it may drop to a slower speed to get a correct exposure. It's just that 1/60 seems to be a "special number" for the camera to which it defaults unless you constrain other parameters in such a way that it is "forced" to change it. I wonder if it takes focal length and/or I.S. into consideration when picking shutter speeds. Maybe I should test that one day.
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Yes, as far as i remember it takes focal length, but not image stabi into consideration.
 
Menu / Image Quality 2 / Min. Shutter Speed
This changes the minimum shutter speed at which the camera will increase ISO; if this is set at 1/60 then the camera will increase ISO to match falling light levels in Aperture Priority or Program once the shutter speed gets down to 1/60. I set mine to 1/4, which allows slower shutter speeds and keeps ISO higher.
 
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