Learning to live with a new camera.

Yesterday I took delivery of my new digital camera. It's a Nikon D50 with the 18-55mm Nikkor lens. I've yet to take on good photo with it. This is not due to it being a bad camera, nor is it actually due to me being a bad photographer. It's down to my previous camera. I previously used the Fuji S7000 "pro-sumer" camera, which is a good little camera, yet it's only since getting the new one have I realised just how much trust I put into the automatic systems on S7000. Now I pretty much always used the Fuji in Manual mode, and I thought I was getting really good at it, but what I didn't realise was I was using all the gizmos to show me if it was overexposed or under exposed and it would show you the picture you were going to take pretty much.

It's been such a culture shock moving to DSLR because you *have* to know how to set the camera to get the shot you want.

I think I'm going to *have* to read the manual and use it on Auto for a while. I feel like I'm starting A Level chemistry all over again. The first thing we were told in our first lesson in A Level Chemistry was to forget everything we learnt at GCSE level.

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