Customer Reviews

Sony Alpha DSLR-A100 Digital Field Guide

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This book is the ideal ready-reference for any Alpha owner who finds the Alpha manual less than helpful. Both better organized and more clearly-written than the manual, it also goes well beyond the manual in terms of what it covers: not only does it give a rundown of the camera's many features and directions for accessing them, it explains in an easy-to-understand way when and how to make use of each. Well worth the purchase price!

I found this to be a well-written and generally helpful guide to using the Sony DSLR-A100, far easier to follow than the manual that came with the camera. However, I found that for my purposes the Magic Lantern guide (titled simply SONY DSLR A 100 and also available from Amazon), which is comparable in cost, to be more helpful. While it lacks the color pictures of this guide, the trade-off for me was the more detailed information in the latter guide about the camera itself. In short I found that the "Digital Field Guide" tended to be simply a generic guide to DSLR cameras with Sony DSLR information pasted in wherever the author found it appropriate. The Magic Lantern guide on the other hand was Sony DSLR specific from the get-go (and you can by a parallel Magic Lantern DVD that is outstanding).

This is the book that sould have come with the camera. It is clear, easy to use and even a bit fun. The information is very specific but also would help you if you had other cameras. I started with a DVD guide for the A100 and ended up buying this from Amazon. Glad I did, now I have some shots to show people and not feel like I waisted my money on this great DSLR. Perfect book to get started with.

This book is very helpful in understanding all that my camera can do. I refer to it all the time! Better than the manual for most things.

Very good. Much easier to follow than the Sony manual, pictures and diagrams assist in understanding.

The book is very complete, the photographs in color are fantastic and with technical information treated in a very symple way for everybody to understand.

This book simply and easily explains all the features of the Sony Alpha 100 so anyone can take great photos with this outstanding camera. I recommend the book highly for anyone who is buying this Sony camera.

This book is excellent and very clear. All functions of the camera is explained in depth - this book should have been in the camera box. I never go without it and it is always in my backpack for a quick reference or so.

a good simple no-nonsense guide to the camera...amkes the learning curve far shorter if you're not used to a sophisticated digital camera.

This is my first Digital SLR, and my first field guide to go with it. It's quick, easy, and will get you rolling in no time.