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Hi. I know I will sound stupid, so please accept my apologies. I have shot with 8mm cameras many times and my footage always comes out great. I find it easy to shoot 8mm. But I have no understanding of photographic terminolgy and that means I cannot go beyond the basics. I just inherited my uncle's Canon 1014 XL-S. I've used it before for simple shooting, but am so lost with the Macro setting, Telephoto settings and also with the wide angle adaptor. I'm throwing up my hands in failure because I just cannot use them. :( What does this mean: "Rotate the zooming ring to the shortest focal length." Shortest focal length is what? I don't understand. This is in the instructions for setting the camera to macro mode. Then for the Wide Angle Lens attachment it says, with the zooming ring set for wide angle macros filming (do not understand because of above) and the focusing ring at infinity (I do know what the infinity symbol is), etc. etc. Basically, I am stumped on this because I don't get the Macro setting. I honestly cannot figure this out. And I have searched so hard and read so many pages upon pages of information, but I can never find a simple explanation. Somehow this is confusing me. I can trade stocks and run an entire division of my company, but this is just stumping me! Thank you in advance.