David Busch's Sony Alpha a68/ILCA-68 Guide to Digital Photography

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Sony a68 Roadmap

Traditionally, there have been two ways of providing a roadmap to guide you through the maze of features found in a sophisticated camera like the a68. One approach uses a few tiny black-and-white line drawings or photos impaled with dozens of callouts labeled with cross-references to the actual pages in the book that tell you what these components do. You’ll find this tactic used in the printed, online, and PDF manuals Sony provides with the a68, and most of the other third-party guidebooks as well. Deciphering one of these miniature camera layouts is a lot like being presented with a world globe when what you really want to know is how to find the capital of Belgium.

I originated a more useful approach in my field guides, ...