Originally Posted by WEG Cory

Books work wonders if you have focus. Hal and Jake, you can find $5 books on Amazon.

Best thing to do is take your camera and your book to to starbucks and just sit there for the day. Read something, try it out on your camera, then read something else. The good books will explain what to do and why you would do it in certain situations.

The automatic side of these cameras is great, but you should just learn the manual setting. Your photographs will look a million times better if you do.

I shoot only in Manual. Here are some examples of pictures that would be difficult, and in some cases impossible, to get in the Auto setting: