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Nothing is charged now. Tom confirms one of your times within a day; you'll get an email with a link to pay, and the hour is yours once that's done. The time is held for 24 hours after Tom confirms.

How it works

1. Pick up to three times that work for you from Tom's open hours and tell us what you want to learn.

2. Tom confirms one of them (usually same day) and you get a link to pay the $79.

3. Show up with your camera. One hour, just you and Tom, in the classroom at the store.

Good for

• Getting off auto — aperture, shutter and ISO until they make sense
• Your new camera's menus, focus modes and the settings that matter
• Flash and lighting, on-camera and off
• Portraits, families, pets — the people you actually photograph
• Editing on your phone or in Lightroom
• Film: loading, metering, what to shoot and how we develop it

The fine print

Lessons are one hour in the classroom at YM Camera, 755 Boardman-Canfield Rd. Bring your camera charged with a card in it. Need to move it? Give us a day's notice and we'll find another time. Gift a lesson: buy one at the counter and the recipient books with the same form.