Is there a good tutorial giving instructions on how to use manual settings?

No, a slow shutter speed will have the opposite effect. It will not freeze motion, it will introduce motion blur. The shutter speed is how long the shutter will be open (and therefore the length ...

There's a tiny slider on the side of the card that write protects it. To unprotect it, the slider should be nearest the contacts.

You'd think it would have a macro setting...check for that. Every digital camera that I have had did have that feature.

If you're new to animating and not familiar with digital photography, a good webcam is preferred to a digital camera. Using digital cameras for stop motion is still in its infancy, and the maj...

They don't seem to have a web page . if put Olimpia in search you will come up with companies selling a 35mm olempia as a cheap product . good for gifts and stuff . i think this camera has bee...

MP means how many pixels are in the photo if it's a 6 mp so it has a 6 million pixel in the photo and the 3x optical zoom it means it make it zoom up to 3 times closer to the subject and it wa...

Yep Macro is for close up pictures of small objects. A microscope is used objects so small they are allmost invisible, so a macroscope is for things that are a bit bigger but still small.

You can check out some of these places to see if you can get a manual there. ...