Hello /p/eople I just purchased a Nikkon Coolpix L340 for photographing

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>>3106959
You've got a camera with a cellphone size sensor and a mirrorless form factor, without any useful buttons or knobs to control it.
Read the sticky and lrn 2 google.

>I have seen them before but never saved them
lurk more

>>3106983
Well, this was helpful, thanks for nothing mate

>>3107082

Don't come here for general 'beginner advice'. Go to one of the thousands of sites that help you with the technical info, in a as basic or as detailed explanation as you like.

Once you do that, go out and shoot whatever interests you. Look at photography, critique yourself based off the masters. Always seek to improve, and carry your camera everywhere.

Please visit us again with your pictures, or one of the generals if you have a specific question.

>>3106959
>some advice or tips
your camera is shit and it's shittiness will discourage you from bothering with photography

t. owned a better camera from the coolpix lineup for like a year and a half, have already shot way more with the entry level dslr i've owned for less than 3 months

>>3107082
get /p/hucked m8

>>3107229
So....thanks for nothing was correct.

>>3106959
you won't get advice on that here, don't let the asshats discourage you though.

go outside and just try your cam out. you'll learn pretty quickly.

>>3108126
>you'll learn pretty quickly
... that it's shit lol

>>3108141
Honestly this, it's the literal bottom of the barrel point and shoot with a shitty super zoom tacked on it to sell to soccer moms who can't tell a DSLR from a dildo. You can take marginally better shots with it than with your phone, at the expense of 10x less convenience. You can't learn photography with it because it offers you none of the creative controls that are essential to photography. You can learn to compose maybe, but even that is limited to shots with depth of field or the ass because they're no such thing as shallow DoF on that size of sensor.
Sell this crap and but a real camera, even a few years old used entry level DSLR will be infinitely better (look up D3100 for example). And don't come to /p/ for "beginner's advice" because you will get none, unless someone unlikely feels like spending time to tell you why your shitty snapshits are shitty.

>>3108294
bokehwhoring isnt learning anon, its a detour
if everyone on /p/ kept with a superzoom P&S shitter until they got good the board would produce far better content

>>3108301
Exactly. The thing costs around 150 bucks, it's basically a little toy camera, but I guarantee OP is better off actually using it instead of gear-whoring right away.

>>3108301
>>3108302
If the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear "DoF control" is MUH BOKEH then you shouldn't be giving photography advice to people on the internet.