Sony Alpha DSLR-A100 Digital Field Guide (Paperback)

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Start taking the best photos of your life--today

Your Sony Alpha DSLR-A100 has dozens of amazing features. Would you rather spend hours studying the manual or snapping pictures? This guide gets you on the fast track, with full-color illustrations that help you identify and understand every button and dial and the effects you can shoot for. Learn to use every control, what pitfalls to dodge, and the secrets of capturing spectacular images in more than 20 shooting situations. Wherever your A100 goes, this book should go too.

* Follow an illustrated road map that makes it easy to locate the controls on your camera and learn what each does
* Review photographic essentials including exposure, lighting, and lens choices
* Learn to capture great images of tricky subjects like flowers, pets, sporting events, sunsets, and fireworks
* Explore such techniques as fill flash, infrared, panoramic, macro, and filter effect photography
* Troubleshoot potential problems with your A100

Visit our Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks

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Start taking the best photos of your life—today

Your Sony Alpha DSLR-A100 has dozens of amazing features. Would you rather spend hours studying the manual or snapping pictures? This guide gets you on the fast track, with full-color illustrations that help you identify and understand every button and dial and the effects you can shoot for. Learn to use every control, what pitfalls to dodge, and the secrets of capturing spectacular images in more than 20 shooting situations. Wherever your A100 goes, this book should go too.

• Follow an illustrated road map that makes it easy to locate the controls on your camera and learn what each does
• Review photographic essentials including exposure, lighting, and lens choices
• Learn to capture great images of tricky subjects like flowers, pets, sporting events, sunsets, and fireworks
• Explore such techniques as fill flash, infrared, panoramic, macro, and filter effect photography
• Troubleshoot potential problems with your A100

Visit our Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks

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Product Details

• Paperback: 237 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (March 6, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470126566
• ISBN-13: 978-0470126561
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #228,969 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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• This is item 9 in The Digital Field Guide Series.

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32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Far more useful than the Alpha manual!, June 10, 2007

By	C. Derousseau (Wisconsin, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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!

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sony Alfa Field Guide, July 30, 2007

By	Miguel Cedeo Cruz "MC herradura" (Guadalajara, Mexico) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

26 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Have, March 18, 2007

By	T. Odell "photographer" (Ann Arbor Michigan) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.