Sony A7 III Used Guide book?

[steveparry]

I was hoping to find a used guide book in the UK as new ones are so expensive. As this has been out since 2018 there must be many people with an old one that's unused? Would a guide book for the A7Riii be worthwhile? I ask because it seems almost identical apart from the larger sensor.

 

[Alan Clark]

One difference between the two variants is that the R version does not have scene selection mode (SCN) on the control dial so it is not described in my David Busch guide for it (which I found useful). You can, of course, find explanations of this using your favourite search engine.

 

[iamdlewis]

I was hoping to find a used guide book in the UK as new ones are so expensive. As this has been out since 2018 there must be many people with an old one that's unused? Would a guide book for the A7Riii be worthwhile? I ask because it seems almost identical apart from the larger sensor.

Have you looked at these: Sony A7 III Guides & Resources

 

[steveparry]

Have you looked at these: Sony A7 III Guides & Resources

I have and there are some useful resources indeed. However, I don't need the BEST lenses etc; ie Sony's most expensive versions of everything. I expect I'll look for either Tamron or Sigma zooms as the difference in quality of output would be relatively small. I did also found Mark Galer's videos on YTube an excellent intro. I've just signed up (for one month only) to his Patreon channel in order to d/l his ebooks and watch the many hours of videos.

 

[iamdlewis]

I have and there are some useful resources indeed. However, I don't need the BEST lenses etc; ie Sony's most expensive versions of everything. I expect I'll look for either Tamron or Sigma zooms as the difference in quality of output would be relatively small. I did also found Mark Galer's videos on YTube an excellent intro. I've just signed up (for one month only) to his Patreon channel in order to d/l his ebooks and watch the many hours of videos.

Mark has some good stuff but I think his use of aperture priority for wildlife is no good.

Dustin Abbott has good reviews on more budget lenses

 

[Thad E Ginathom]

I was hoping to find a used guide book in the UK as new ones are so expensive.

David Busch's book: GBP 24.73 on Amazon UK. Not cheap, but I have bought one of his books for each of my three Sony alpha cameras. Even the stuff that is repetitive because it's the same for other alpha cameras is worth re-reading for the bits I forgot!

It's my nightly bed-time reading for a new camera and my reference manuals once I've settled in. It may not come off the shelf often but it absolutely does from time to time and I have never regretted the purchase(s).

Trawl second-hand bookshops/websites?

I am not so keen on Mark Galer's e books. They are very graphics-heavy PDFs and also very much about the way that he does things. I'd absolutely watch his video on any new or even desired camera, though.

I don't think Busch's book (Or Friedman) replaces the youtube videos, and I don't think they replace the book. They are both incredibly useful resources, and I like to learn from different people's ways of doing things. I must have watched a dozen videos on my a7iv, but it was one in particular that made the face/eye/tracking of that model click with me.

Happy reading, Happy watching, Happy photography!