David Busch’s Sony Alpha a6700/ILCE-6700 Guide to Digital Photography

2 Your Camera Roadmap

The official manual for the a6700 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 500-plus pages long and includes page upon page of tiny black-and-white drawings impaled with dozens of callouts. No less than nine pages 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, particularly ...