Have you read the manual?

Have you read the manual for your camera? How about your other gear? Do you even know where the manual is? I used to keep the manuals to my camera bodies in my camera bag for reference until I discovered PDF versions I can keep on my phone. I didn’t sit down and read the manual cover to cover like I would a novel. I use it as a reference book like it is most likely intended. The reason this came up is that I have seen a number of questions posted in social media groups about asking how to do you do such and such when the answer is typically available at your fingertips. I don’t mind helping out but it seems to me that you would get an answer faster by looking it up in the manual.

The internet and social media are great for some things, you get to interact with people you may have never been able to before. I know, sometimes it may not be a good thing but for me most of the time it is.