reading digital camera manual
Posted on Thursday, April 9th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
Do you read your digital camera manual? If you didn’t read the manual, is it obscure photographic terms? The fact is that most digital camera manuals are neither user friendly or written with beginners in mind. Then if you haven’t read the manual you aren’t getting the most from your digital camera. Digital cameras are loaded with options that let you do really cool things. If all you do is point and shoot you are missing out on a whole lot of fun and some great photos.
It is a fact that we are visual learners and we like our information in manageable chunks. When we are learning a new skill we learn more by seeing and doing than by reading. Figuring out a digital camera really needs practice. Let’s go back to the manual and pick up from where you got stuck. In the first few pages of the manual there will be diagrams identifying each function. Don’t start there. It’s too much to learn all at once, and if you don’t know what it all means you won’t remember it. It’s much easier to learn each function as you need it. Try this: get your camera and the manual out. Choose a topic that you are unfamiliar with and learn about that one feature. It might be the basic operation or it may be something more advanced, such as white balance or aperture priority mode.
As you read the instructions in the manual explore the settings on your camera and try them out. Then stop and practice using this setting. Go and take some pictures around your home or neighbourhood. You don’t have to worry about wasting film anymore, so you can snap happily away and then delete the disfigured pictures. Only go on to the next topic when you feel that you have thoroughly absorbed the first. This way you will get through all the features in a month at most.
Some lazy peoples don’t read manual book, because they think they know it already or they think they are smart. But i suggest you to take time a while to read on rather than to trial and error which gonna break your gear.