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plantladylin said: Yep ... that sounds like me; I've had a big problem with hitting the wrong button, dial etc., messing up the settings and then can't figure out how to get it back to where it was and I end up having to wait for my husband to get home to fix it for me. I think Anne's tip about taking one section of the manual at a time and learning it before going onto something else is great advice.

Now you've hit on a different problem, Lin. Photography concepts are really not that hard. But learning how to operate your individual camera can be. I have been into photography for nearly 40 years and have a pretty good grasp of how things work. It was fairly simple with film cameras but trying to figure out all the features on a digital and how to navigated all the menus, that's a pain. I don't think the designers ever use a camera out in the real world.