Since the hg10 doesnt have zebra stripes, if shooting manual. How do you check exposure?

No one has any idea how to do this? :)

No one has any idea how to do this? :)

Buy a memory card and put it in the camera. Without it the camera just winks at you that it has no card.

Push the camera photo button down half way.

There is a section in the manual about checking this.

After inserting a memory card, be sure to enable still-image recording in the Function menu (see manual).

I will check this out thank you.