Confused by my camera - help!

[twentysix by twentyfive]

I've just bought a Lumix DMC-TZ70 and have the same problem as @swee'pea99 I'm just going to start on "auto" and work my way away from that. Bit of an experimental approach perhaps but it's not as if one spends a lot of dosh on film and processing anymore. Given enough playing around I guess I'll get to that 98% number that was quoted earlier eventually. Or I might resort to RTFM

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Thanks but most of these suggestions aren't quite what I'm after.

I don't need tips on photography as such - I used to be really into it, so I know about f numbers and composition and all that kind of thing. And I certainly don't want to read a manual, much less a book. I was just after something that would offer some basic tips on using a digital, as against a (comparatively speaking very simple) 35mm SLR, in an easy, intuitive format. I was sure such a thing must exist. Maybe it does.

This is something like the kind of thing I had in mind - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk8beQ0VyIA - ie, it doesn't try to cover chapter & verse, cross all the t's & dot all the i's, just offers a simple, easily graspable tip on how & why to use two of the 'top levelest' options available. (In truth I probably only need to access 10% of this machine's functionality to get 98% of its value to me.)

But like I say, thanks - and if you do happen to stumble across a 10 minute digital camera crash course....

F stops, shutter speeds, iso, shutter priority, aperture priority, a-dep have all been retained in digital SLRs. They are the same as film, except no film and you can change the Iso via a dial or the buttons. So since you are familiar with this, it is just a case of getting familiar with how you change those settings. A manual is the quickest way as it will be specific to your camera. Just like it was in film days. Getting photos off the camera just plug into usb on your computer.