Hi To all, I am a novice photographer, but striving hard to learn. I'm reading and practicing as much as time allows. I have owned a couple of Nikon DSLRs, and while I'm sure that they are good cameras and I have actually had more consistent results with them than with my X100, I really like the X100 better, or at least I want to like it better. It certainly suits the style of shooting that I do the most. My problem is that it is wildly inconsistent. My understanding is that if I leave the aperture on "A" and select a different shutter speed, it is in "shutter priority and will automatically select a correct aperture and ISO setting (assuming the ISO is on AUTO) for a correct exposure. It never does. What I get is either badly over exposed or badly under exposed. Further, when I press the shutter button down halfway, I see either a badly over or under exposed image, but if I go ahead and shoot, what I get will be entirely different. I most often attempt to use "Aperture Priority". I leave my ISO and shutter speed set on Auto and select an aperture setting that I hope will give me the depth of field that I am seeking. Again, my exposures are awful! Always something bad and different. The only way I get decent exposures is by trial and error and taking over both the ISO and shutter speeds manually and ignoring the preview image that I get and just shooting anyway. The ISO doesn't seem to be too difficult. If I'm outside in decent light, anything from 100 to 500 seems to work okay. I try to stay low. I usually just have to experiment with shutter speed until I get an exposure that I like. Is this something quirky about my particular camera or do I just have an erroneous idea of how it is supposed to work? I have purchased two books about the X100 on Amazon, but I haven't read them in their entirety. Maybe if I press on I'll get it, but right now I'm getting pretty frustrated. I have updated my firmware twice now.