Photographer's Guide to the Sony DSC-RX100 V: Getting the Most from Sony's Pocketable Digital Camera
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Photographer's Guide to the Sony DSC-RX100 V: Getting the Most from Sony's Pocketable Digital Camera Details
About the Author Alexander S. White is the author of numerous guide books for advanced compact cameras, including models from Sony, Leica, Nikon, Canon, Panasonic, and Fujifilm. He lives near Richmond, Virginia, with his family. Read more
Reviews
A really great book, easy to read and chockfull of valuable information, up to the appendices. Before buying this, I read all of David Bush's excerpts and found it too similar to his Nikon hardcopy that I owned for years and didn't like for it populistic writing style. But this version by White is written in a most neutral style, reads pleasant and non-pretentious, and evidently uses pictures as examples he made with the camera that he reviews. That again is in stark contrast with some other camera reviewers who often appear to dig out some seemingly non-relevant collection of images to impress readers. Many of those reviewers also use a lot of white space and large sentence white-spacing to ultimately impress with a high number of pages. This book by White contains far more information and is very well structured in my opinion, such that it can be used as a quick reference and does not make you dig through fluff before retrieving what you once read and now only vaguely remember. - I subtracted one star however, because the Kindle Table of Content is a bit of a mess and appears as one long list of entries without much clarity; no font changes, no bold or italics, no clear numbering. It does not jive with the TOC of the book itself when viewing it on Kindle and so the Kindle TOC Chapters are indistinguishable from any other TOC entry. That way you cannot easily finish a chapter and continue next time, without using bookmarks, or go to one of the chapters the writer so often references to. I tried each and every setting in Kindle and search for hours on Amazon and Google to fix it, but without resolve. This in my mind is a fundamental mistake of the writer or publisher and should have been corrected before publishing. Otherwise, this is a great, valuable book with an enormity of superb content.
