What are the best settings for...

There is none. There is no such thing as a best setting for this or that or for everything. It changes everytime and everywhere.

Image quality is highly dependent on the photographer's ability. The camera is just a tool. Learn how to set exposure properly to master the technical side of photography. As for the artistic side, you'll have to learn the rules first before your start breaking them.

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How to keep your memory card healthy.

1. Format the memory card before using it the first time with your camera. 
2. Remove and install the memory card to the camera only if the camera is off.
3. Remove the memory card from the card reader only after you have used the Safely Remove Hardware utility in Windows or the appropriate unmount utility in the Mac and Linux. 
4. Never turn the camera off when the read or write activity indicator on the camera is on. That is the flickering light that goes on right after you take a shot.
5. Use a USB card reader to connect the memory card to the computer. This avoids all camera to computer connection problems and will also keep the camera's battery charge from being depleted. Most of the time, this is the one that will prevent you from going insane.
6. After a day's shoot, copy all pictures and videos to your computer. Burn another set of copies to a CD. Format the card after that. Yes, format erases all the pictures in the card but this procedure is the one that will keep your card healthy the most.
7. When formatting the card from the computer, format it to the FAT32 filesystem. Yes, it is all right to format your camera's memory card in the computer.
8. The camera is not a viewer. If you want to show off your pictures, use a digital photo frame, a computer's comfortably bigger monitor, a TV set, email them as attachments, upload them to your social networking site, give away copies in a CD, or show the prints instead as loose pictures or in an album just like the good old days.
9. Do not delete pictures and videos in-camera to keep file arrangement more orderly and the filesystem more happy. This will help avoid seeing those corrupted file messages in the future. The only thing you can delete if ever is the last thing you took.
10. You can have more than one memory card for each device but make sure you use each card to one device only.
11. At the first sign of error, replace the card immediately. Do not hesitate on this.
12. Work with copies not the originals. Make copies of copies if you have to. Make sure you are not working on the very last one. Never work or view while in the memory card. Make copies to the hard disk then work or view there.

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Keerok

Internal memory to memory card

 

1. Connect your camera without the memory card to the computer using the USB cable. There is no other way. If it is not possible for you to do this step, go to a computer or photo shop and let them do it for you.

2. Copy files to the computer. If you are not going to put the pictures to the memory card, you are done.

3. If you are going to transfer the pictures to the memory card, disconnect the camera fro the computer and install the memory card.

4. Reconnect camera to the computer.

5. Copy files from computer to camera. The files will now be saved in the memory card.

If you have a USB card reader, you can connect both the camera and the memory card separately to the computer at the same time and copy the files directly from camera to memory card without saving to the computer first.

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Keerok

Aperture size, where?

What you have is a point-and-shoot camera. It does not have aperture size control.

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Shutter speed, where?

What you have is a point-and-shoot camera. It does not have shutter speed control.

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