[john0213]

I treat manual as an index when i need to find something that the book mentioned. I personally wouldn't recommend spending all your time into reading manual cause it teaches you basically nothing but how to get to a specific step. if you don't understand photography in the first place, how would you know when to use those steps?

I will repeat this one more time. get the book called Understanding Exposure in your local book store. it will let you kick off quite good!