After having waited about 7 years to take the photography classes I'd dreamed of, I found I was sorely disappointed - at least in the beginning. I realize now I was just sorely lost. I had just bought my camera and had no idea how to operate it. I'd jumped into these classes with terms like apertures, white balance and metering and I had no idea how to find or set these features in my camera. There were only two of us with Olympus Cameras in the class and the other person was more lost than me. The instructor was a Nikon person and had boned up on Cannon but made it clear he couldn't hold the class back to figure out how my camera would set a custom white balance. He told me to read the manual then if I still didn't understand it he'd help me after class next time. I couldn't understand the manual. THAT was why I was in the class!
Being the impatient person I am, I didn't wait until next class to meet with my instructor. I started googling my camera on the Internet and low and behold there was LIGHT! On http://www.youtube.com/ there is video after video of people explaining every button, where it is, what it does and how to operate it. I found the Holy Grail! Just enter your camera make and model in the search bar. I spent hours there and have to say that by the time I went to class three, I was a master of my camera!
I did not go this route myself, but found out later that http://www.elitevideo.com/ sells really good instructional videos on just about any camera made. They are very detailed and go over every feature and button. Prices range from about $35 to $79 from what I could tell.
I had to understand how to operate my camera before I could move forward in understanding the technical side of photography. Once I did this, I was in the game.
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