learn to use my camera

_{since the picture isn’t showing up at the moment, it’s a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ38}

A new camera! Got it on Monday and the next step would be to fully learn to use it and actualise its potential. Sure I know how to take pictures with it but I want more – basically to be able to use the different modes in a meaningful way (and not just randomly picking a mode and trying to get a decent picture :D). Am very pleased with the camera, the size is decent enough to carry around without too much of a hassle and the 18x zoom is impressive to say the least.

Fully functioning camera + glamorous new haircut.

I want to learn to use my camera and develop pics on the computer. Plus email pics to friends.

I’ve started taking my camera with me anytime I go on walks, and messing around with all of the modes, to experiment with the results. Even though reading the manual might in some ways be quicker, I know that I learn best by experience and feel. I’ve been fairly happy with some of the photos I’ve taken – and really, one photo I’m fond of out of every 200 is a slightly higher ratio than I expect (and digital makes that ratio affordable to me). So, progress!

I had a Cannon A40 point&shoot digital for the longest time… I loved it, it did exactly what I wanted it to. I upgraded to a G6 … I haven’t been able to take a decent picture since, save for flowers. And you know, flowers. They just stand there in the sunshine and pose. It’s pretty hard to screw that up.

So now I guess I actually have to find the manual buried deep in my closet and learn how to really use it, so that it will do my bidding.

the camera and found many of the options. Still lots to learn but then there always is. I’m confident I know what options I have available I just need practice in using them now.

Just got a new camera. Now I just need to figure out how to best use it.