Well, I still don't have that turret re-wired and I've still got a ton of stuff to do and the weekend's darn near gone, so I finally said "Frak it, I can't wait any longer to get my hands on this new camera!" and I tool a couple tanks out back to try out the feeble little amount of stuff I've learned so far. That would be using the auto stuff, downloading photos and videos to the computer, and taking video. I only took about a half dozen pictures and this was the only one I thought worthy of posting, and the video is just to try it out. I did the video set on 1920x1080 and it took a LOT longer to upload to youtube. Now I'll get to see how bad youtube butchered it. Definitely click for full screen, that little window in the post doesn't do a video justice at all.
I've obviously still got a lot to learn, but I think I can see the potential here.
Definitely much, much better than the instamatic, even now when I still haven't got a clue what I'm doing. Just wait till I get this thing figgered out!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU6ToSPnT-4