David Busch's Sony Alpha a7 IV Guide to Digital Photography

Your Camera Roadmap

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The official manual for the a7 IV is available only as an online HTML “Web Manual,” which you can also download as a PDF file. Sony calls this document a “Help Guide,” which many take to mean that the average user needs a lot of help to use it. It’s 496 pages long and includes page upon page of tiny black-and-white drawings impaled with dozens of callouts. Six pages at the tail end of the text are devoted just to labeling the 250-plus individual icons that can appear in the viewfinder and LCD monitor screen. Seeking information about a specific feature is a lot like being presented with a world globe when what you really want is to locate the capital of Brazil.

I’ll take a somewhat different approach in this book, ...