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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bob Blaylock" data-source="post: 498216" data-attributes="member: 16749">I grew up with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikon_F2" target="_blank">F2</a>—a totally all-manual camera.  Having had my D3200 for a couple of years now, I am amazed at the degree of intelligence built into it, in its ability, most of the time, to make for itself the sort of decisions that I was used to making with the F2.  But it does have its limits.  It certainly helps, if you're going to rely on automatic controls for focus and exposure, to understand how they work, how to adjust how they work, and what their limitations are.  Most of the  time, the D3200 gets it right, but some times, it does not.  You need to know how to help it make better choices, in some circumstances, and some times, you just need to know when and how to take over full manual control.</blockquote>