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Diglloyd Guide to Mirrorless offers comprehensive integrated coverage of most APS-C and full frame mirrorless cameras and lenses.

Special emphasis is placed on Sony full-frame, including Sony lenses and the high performance Zeiss Batis and Zeiss Loxia lenses plus Rokinon/Samyang and others. Fujifilm X, Olympus and Panasonic M4/3, Sigma dp Merrill and dp/sd Quattro are also covered in depth. Years in the making, it offers a wealth of material for choosing and using a mirrorless camera.

  • Make better images by learning how to get the best results right away. For example, the best way to set up your Sony camera.
  • Save money by choosing the right lens for your needs the first time, particularly with the numerous lenses available for Sony.
  • Make better images, a sort of “cheat sheet” saving yourself months or years of ad-hoc learning—best practices and how-to and processing parameters are discussed and shown.
  • Jaw-dropping image quality found nowhere else utilizing Retina-grade images up to full camera resolution, plus large crops.
  • Real world examples with insights found nowhere else. Make sharper images just by understanding lens behavior you won’t read about elsewhere.
  • Aperture series from wide open through stopped down, showing the full range of lens performance and bokeh.
  • Optical quality analysis of field curvature, focus shift, sharpness, flare, distortion, and performance in the field.

Want a preview? Click on any page below to see an excerpt as well as extensive blog coverage, for example on Sony.

See also L-Mount mirrorless table of contents

Sony Alpha Mirrorless

Sony A7R V

5th Generation standard-setting camera.

  1. Sony A7R V: ISO 100 to 25600 with Adobe AI Denoise 10,50
  2. Sony A7R V ETTR: Metering vs Camera Histograms & Zebra vs RawDigger (Birch Trees) 📹
  3. Sony A7R V: Metering vs Camera Histograms & Zebra vs RawDigger (Color Card) 📹
  4. Sony A7R V: Configuring Zebra Display for ETTR Captures 📹
  5. Sony A7R V: Perfect ETTR at ISO 50/100 using Zebra Display
  6. Sony A7R V: ISO 100 vs ISO 50 Histograms and JPEGs for ETTR 📹
  7. Sony A7R V: Video 'Picture Profile' a Bad Idea for Still Images
  8. White Balance and Tint for Sony A7R V, Winter Cloudy, Adobe Camera Raw
  9. Sony A7R V: Sony Camera Profiles Suck in Adobe Camera Raw 📹
  10. Sony A7R V: Mitigating Noise, Optimizing Exposure at Base ISO 📹
  11. Focus Bracketing: Multiple Bugs and Failures
  12. Focus Bracketing Example @ 12mm: Failure to Reach INF, Chocolate Brown Alpine Creek
  13. Pixel Shift: Diffraction Effects, Pixel Shift vs Single Shot
  14. Pixel Shift: 16-Shot vs 4-Shot vs Single-Shot: Dolls
  15. Pixel Shift: Example, Various
  16. Pixel Shift Performance Proofs: Alpine Creek
  17. Pixel Shift: Capture and Workflow
  18. Pixel Shift Gotchas, but Foolproof Ways to Optimize
  19. Pixel Shift with Motion: People in Nature
  20. Pixel Shift for Panoramas, Examples: Alpine Creek
  21. Pixel Shift vs Single Shot: Moots MootoX RSL 29er
  22. Pixel Shift Artifacts: Sony vs PixelShift2DNG
  23. Sony A7R V: Pixel Shift vs Single Shot (Huge Laurel at Bend in Alpine Creek)
  24. Voigtlander FE 35mm f/2 APO Aperture Series: Alpine Creek Bottom (A7R V, Pixel Shift)
  25. Sony FE 12-24mm f/2.8 GM Aperture Series @ 21mm: Huge Laurel at Bend in Alpine Creek (A7R V, Pixel Shift)

Sony Alpha A7R II

Attention to details: a big upgrade over the A7R.

Sony Alpha A7S

Full frame compact 12-megapixel high-sensitivity sensor with 4K video.

Sony Mirrorless Lenses

Sony FE 12-24mm f/2.8 GM

Fast extreme wide angle zoom.

  1. Introduction to Sony FE 12-24mm f/2.8 GM
  2. Distortion for Sony FE 12-24mm f/2.8 GM
  3. Examples: Lundy Canyon
  4. Focus Stacking
  5. Aperture Series @ 24mm: Blue Water among Orange Streambed, Tenaya Canyon
  6. Shootout @ 12mm vs Sony 12-24/4G: Big Tree at Alpine Creek Bend
  7. Shootout @ 12mm: Sony FE 12-24mm f/2.8 GM vs Sony FE 12-24mm f/4 GM: Two Aspen, Lundy Canyon
  8. Shootout @ 12mm: Sony FE 12-24mm f/2.8 GM vs Sony FE 12-24mm f/4 GM: Brilliant Backlit Beaver Pond Meadow
  9. Aperture Series @ 13mm: House Under Construction
  10. Compared @ 14mm: Swing and Tilt, Optical Decentering —two Sony FE 12-24mm f/2.8 GM and Sigma FE 14-24mm f/2.8 DG DN Art
  11. Aperture Series @ 15mm: Backlit Aspen
  12. Aperture Series @ 17mm: Big Tree at Bend in Alpine Creek
  13. Shootout @ 18mm: Sony FE 12-24mm f/2.8 GM vs Zeiss Batis 18/2.8: First Ice on Beaver Pond, Lundy Canyon
  14. Shootout @ 18mm: Sony FE 12-24mm f/2.8 GM vs Zeiss Batis 18/2.8: View from Crooked Creek Canyon to White Mountain Peak
  15. Aperture Series @ 21mm: Aspen Grove on Rocky Slope
  16. Shootout @ 20mm: Sony FE 12-24/2.8 GM vs Sony FE 12-24/4G vs Sigma FE 14-24/2.8 DG DN: Death Valley Strata
  17. Shootout @ 21mm: Sony FE 12-24mm f/2.8 GM vs Zeiss Loxia 21mm: First Ice on Beaver Pond, Lundy Canyon
  18. Aperture Series @ 24mm: Late Day Sunlight on Desert Slope
  19. Aperture Series @ 24mm: Colorful Autumn Forest, Tenaya Canyon Streamside
  20. Shootout @ 24mm: Sony FE 12-24mm f/2.8 GM vs Zeiss Loxia 25mm f/2.4 vs Sigma FE 14-24mm f/2.8 DG DN Art: Brilliant Backlit Beaver Pond Meadow
  21. Aperture Series @ 19mm: Deck and House
  22. Sony FE 12-24mm f/2.8 GM Aperture Series @ 21mm: Huge Laurel at Bend in Alpine Creek (A7R V, Pixel Shift)
  23. Focus Bracketing Example @ 12mm: Failure to Reach INF, Chocolate Brown Alpine Creek
  24. Focus Bracketing Example @ 16mm: Failure to Reach INF, Aspen
  25. SHOOTOUT @ 16mm: Sony FE 16-35/2.8 GM II vs Sony FE 12-24/2.8 GM — End of the Road, White Mountains
  26. Shootout vs Sony FE 12-24mm f2/8 GM: Backyard
  27. SHOOTOUT: Sony FE 14/1.8G vs Sony FE12-24/2.8GM, Bristlecone Sculptures, View to WhiteMountainPeak
  28. Shootout vs Sony FE 14/1.8 GM: Mining Cabin Interior
  29. Shootout @24mm vs Sony FE 24-70/2.8 GM II, Zeiss Loxia 25/2.4 (Deck and Roof)
  30. Shootout @ 24mm vs Sony FE 24-70mm f/2.8 GM II (Colorado Cabin)

Sony FE 12-24mm f/4 G

Extreme wide angle zoom.

  1. Introduction to Sony FE 12-24mm f/4 G
  2. Distortion Examples @ 12mm, Uncorrected and Corrected
  3. Distortion Examples @ 17mm, Uncorrected and Corrected
  4. Distortion Examples @ 24mm, Uncorrected and Corrected
  5. Aperture Series @ 12mm: Mosaic
  6. Aperture Series @ 12mm: Mosaic (Sony A7R IV)
  7. Aperture Series @ 17mm: Mosaic
  8. Aperture Series @ 24mm: Mosaic
  9. Examples: Rock Creek and Morgan Lakes, High Sierra
  10. Examples: Twenty Lakes Basin (Sony A7R IV)
  11. Examples: Dana Lakes and Glacier Canyon
  12. Shootout vs Zeiss Loxia 21/2.8: Pescadero Creek Overview
  13. Shootout: Sony 12-24/4 vs Zeiss Batis 18/2.8: Pescadero Creek Downstream
  14. Shootout: Sony 12-24/4 vs Zeiss Batis 18/2.8: Blue Water Flows Over Dark Rocks
  15. Aperture Series @ 13mm: Pescadero Creek Side Pool (with Focus Stack)
  16. Aperture Series @ 12mm: Pescadero Creek, Upstream (with Focus Stack)
  17. Aperture Series @ 17mm: Dana Lake Iceberg
  18. Aperture Series @ 12mm: Raindrops Fall On Dana Lake
  19. Aperture Series @ 12mm: Melting Out Dana Lake #3
  20. Imaging Performance @ 12mm, Single Frame vs Stacked: Pine at Morgan Lake
  21. Imaging Performance @ 24mm, Single Frame vs Stacked: Downed Tree, Last Kiss of Sunlight
  22. Shootout @ 12mm: Sony FE 12-24mm f/4 GM vs Sony FE 12-24mm f/2.8 GM: Two Aspen, Lundy Canyon
  23. Shootout @ 12mm: Sony FE 12-24mm f/4 GM vs Sony FE 12-24mm f/2.8 GM: Brilliant Backlit Beaver Pond Meadow
  24. 3-Way Shootout @ 18mm: Mosaic (Sony A7R IV)
  25. 3-Way Shootout @ 24mm: Mosaic (Sony A7R IV)
  26. Shootout @ 12mm vs Sony FE 12-24/2.8GM: Big Tree at Alpine Creek Bend
  27. Shootout @ 20mm: Sony FE 12-24/4G vs Sigma FE 14-24/2.8 DG DN vs Sony FE 12-24/2.8 GM: Death Valley Strata

Sony FE 70-200mm f/2.8 GM OSS II

Barely good-enough telephoto zoom for Sony full frame mirrorless

Sony NEX / Alpha APS-C Mirrorless



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