The Sony A7 II: The Unofficial Quintessential Guide

Long time coming...and worth the wait. While I had read reviews of other books written by Mr. Matsumoto, this is the first of his books that I have purchased and read. As the owner of a Sony A7ii, and a serious amateur photographer, I was well versed in the camera's use.....but this book has allowed me to go to a new level. The book includes the technical information that one would expect, but along with personal observations, recommendations, and useful examples, the writing is clean, crisp, and understandable (for the experienced and inexperienced photographer). The only downside of the book is that it has already cost me some money.....in that I took a couple of Brian's suggestions to heart and added to my inventory of "old" and relatively "inexpensive" lenses as well as certain filters and a current Sony lens. A big thumbs up on this end.

Excellent book! This camera is very complex, with 11 buttons, one control wheel, one lever and three dials and an extensive menu system. Paradoxically, this can make it easy use to the camera's full capabilities, if only you can master it.By reading this book, not only will you learn to use the camera's controls, you'll learn the many built in features of the camera and when and how to take advantage of them. Many are quite surprising!

the camera is somewhat behind the current technology, hard to keep up.

I thought that this manual was a better read than the manual that came with the camera. Sent it to my grandson who owns a a7ii. He got a lot of information from this manual.

I love your guys' style and descriptions, you are very fun and very easy to follow along--I show my friends and I recommend these to them all of the time!!!

This book presents to someone like me who enjoys taking photographs, but doesn't know much about how to manually work a camera, a well written, plainly spoken, and easily understood set of carefully thought out instructions. I need the help from someone who is thoughtful enough to come down to my amateur level and bring me slowly up the ladder of understanding. This is an excellent guide for someone who needs to be intellegently, yet gently taught how to use the camera for best effect. I appreciate this book.

This guide is as thorough as one could need. Worth the price to have all this well written and well organized information in one place!One minor omission, the legacy lens adapter table 9-4 on page 237 does not list a Novoflex Adapter for Contax/Yashica lenses. Novoflex does in fact manufacture these, but are poorly identified in the catalog as an Adapter for Contax/Yashica Lens to Sony NEX Camera, as number NEX/CONT. I own one, it works perfectly on my A7II.

This book allows you in-depth review of the varioussettings of the camera not mentioned in the manual.A must review material before using the camera.

En general me gustó todo lo que trae y ha innovado. Sólo me decepcionó que la conección de la acción de video no sea automática con la computadora. Aún no puedo utilizarla como videogabadora y conectarla con la computadora. Al parecer mi Compuadora Apple es demasiado nueva para las opciones de computadora que trae la cámara. Si hay alguien que me informe como superar este aspecto, mucho se los agradcería

He explains things very well not to technical and not to simple. I can understand what he is saying.

This is the most informative manual I have ever read, it covers everything and is a must to any Sony a7ii camera owner.

Helpful....at least one knows what to expect! Only hands on experience help master the camera but this book enables you to take those first shaky steps!! and more....

Covers Everything! I especially like the authors point of view and recommendations.