LParis Loc: Victoria, BC Canada

thanks, I have done so -- but still feel I need more help -- hoping there was a book out there that gave a step by step for settings.

fishmaven Loc: Ohio right now

You're making things too complicated. The FZ1000 is basically an FZ200 with upgraded features. Visit YouTube.com look for Graham Houghton. I've added links to three things to start.

The FZ1000 vs the FZ200
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqnlmbrvvJg>

FZ200 Camera Tutorial Series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J9eeDlxsyg&list=PLFoIf_3ex-YIxsyKHN7DlBdZsMcAkWvot

Panasonic Lumix FZ200 Users Guide illustrated -FREE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J9eeDlxsyg

I feel you'd most benefit from the tutorial on the FZ200. There's also a link to a free guide on using the FZ200 that you can download.

If you MUST have a book, Graham wrote a book on the FZ200 and may have something on the FZ1000. Look on Amazon or a good bookstore.
Dan Martin
fishmaven@gmail.com

LParis Loc: Victoria, BC Canada

Thanks for all that information. and I have googled for books -- there are none. Looks like I'll be busy watching tutorials this week -- thanks again. Lynne

fishone0 Loc: Kingman AZ

I just went from a DSLR (Canon) to Olympus 4/3rds mirror less and also like you wanted to make HDRs on my own instead of in camera--played in menu and figured it out, can now do it and hand held also, so my advice is get to know your camera

Lance Pearson Loc: Viriginia

It sounds like what you really need is to thoroughly understand the interactions of the principles of aperature, lens speed and film speed and how they work with one another manually before you start branching out into sophisticated settings cameras. Many of the top end dslr people and cameras have a couple automatic settings but most, including me, shooting full frame nikon D4's or above and the canon equivilent shoot them with at least two of those plus zoom set and shot manually relying on autofocus and/or auto setting iso as a variable depending on what we are doing. To do that you have to know how all these things relate in detail. You'll learn that by shooting in manual mode and reading. Having someone else give you a set of numbers is just someone else's view of what a form of automatic is and won't let you adjust for what is actually in front of you in my view. You know enough to ask the questions but you might be skipping the knowledge step which I think is very important to do well with any camera you can set manually in part or in whole. My nikon d4 full frame camera must have 50 buttons it seems like and menus of choices that never end. It can get overwhelming but knowing the real basics of aperature, shutter speed and iso plus zoom are the absolute minimum basics to using many of these tools in my view anyway. I sure did not start out that way. Had a 3 x 5 card with the relationships in outline form on them. Now that card is ingrained on the back of my eyeballs after years I think! Have fun and do what feels good to you...I have a nikon D4, sony a7 II shooting canon fd lenses manually, a sony bridge dsc-rx10 mk2 and now a panasonic lumix fz1000ii. the last two I use and carry when traveling including airplanes, suv and my motorcycle. I do occasionally get confused as well as each is slightly different to operate.