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Getting Started with Your Sony a6500

Don’t panic if you opened the book to this chapter and realized that you’ve already taken several hundred or a thousand (or two) photos. The information in this chapter is designed to get the rawest beginner up and running with the a6500 quickly. However, you’ll find that the advice I’m about to offer is useful for those who have already become somewhat comfortable with this well-designed (yet complex) camera. You can zip right through the basics, and then dive into learning a few things you probably didn’t know about your a6500.

Fortunately, this very sophisticated camera is incredibly easy to use in many aspects, right out of the box. In fact, it was designed to allow even the novice to start taking ...

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