Eh Heh....
 
You bought a camera.
 

Hi,
 
For years, I lived on a Canon AE-1. I'm now looking at a nice SLR/Digital camera ... so I can do some more rock music, if it comes around ... and the like. All in all, your camera will require a reasonable knowledge of F-Stops and Shutter Speeds, and if you have it, it will be just fine. I'm going to go away from the 35mm film altogether ... as the whole process is boring and difficult and there are not many labs that can do the film properly anymore ... Portland has 2 of them left, and one of them is slowing down because they have no students left.
 
I'm more than likely going to get me a video camera, since I am into film, and if you look at my pictures, I have a touch for the "moment", which comes from directing, and working with actors ... and while I like to have that on a regular camera, it is much more difficult to get if you don't know the numbers and where the setup is supposed to be ... but the only thing I needed to remember was 6ft, and then come up or down from there on the F-Stop and Shutter Speeds ... if need be ... specially with a flash.

The cool thing about this camera is it has a WiFi link to my phone, on which I can control almost everything on the camera with an app. It's so useful, for instance I had to take a self portrait outside with my guitar for a book I collaborated on. Put the camera on a tripod, set it to a 2 second delay, connected via the app and got myself in shot by looking at the phone screen. Set everything up on the phone, tap the shutter icon and then I had 2 seconds to put the phone out of shot. I could take a whole bunch of shots and even view them all in a gallery to see which ones worked, all without even touching the camera.

My Canon, and most DSLR cameras do a great job on video work. My friends son went to study film production at university and they did most of their initial work using a DSLR. Sony is making some amazing stuff these days.