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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.
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See also L-Mount mirrorless table of contents
Everything | CANON Mirrorless | Fixed Lens | FUJIFILM X | Lenses (non-Sony) | Micro Four Thirds | NIKON Mirrorless | Sigma Cameras | Sigma Lenses | SONY Mirrorless | Voigtlander Lenses | ZEISS Lenses
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Super-fast ultra-wide astrophotography lens.
Super-fast ultra-wide astrophotography fisheye lens.
Outstanding fast wide angle, DSLR optical design.
Native-mount ultra wide angle high performance zoom for mirrorless.
Native-mount mid-range zoom for mirrorless.
Native-mount mid-range zoom for mirrorless.
Outstanding wide angle, watch out for lens skew.
Ultra high speed native-mount moderate wide angle.
Fast native-mount moderate wide angle.
Compact native-mount wide angle.
Compact native-mount wide angle.
Compact native-mount normal lens.
Ultra high speed prime lens.
Compact native-mount wide angle.
Ultra high performance medium telephoto.
Highly corrected medium telephoto.
Outstanding fast wide angle, DSLR optical design.
Macro lens also excellent for all-around shooting.
Anything wider would be a fisheye.
Super wide sibling between the 10mm and 15mm.
Ultra wide native mount manual focus lens for Sony mirrorless.
Fast high performance manual focus wide angle.
Fast mild wide angle lens.
Fast lens speed with curious rendering.
High-grade manual focus wide-normal lens.
Fast lens speed for versatile rendering.
High-grade manual focus normal lens.
Ultra high grade macro all-arounder.
High grade macro all-arounder at a modest price.
5th Generation standard-setting camera.
Technological tour de force.
Menus, buttons, customization.
Eye autofocus with humans, animals, birds.
4th Generation standard-setting camera.
Bad behaviors, anti-design, issues .
Attention to details: a solid upgrade over the A7R II.
Attention to details: a big upgrade over the A7R.
Full frame compact mirrorless with interchangeable lenses.
Vibration from the shutter highly damaging to image sharpness.
Blackout-free 20 fps speed demon.
High performance full frame 12-megapixel sensor.
A7R II modified sensor cover glass for Leica M lens performance.
Full frame compact 12-megapixel high-sensitivity sensor with 4K video.
Sensor stabilized 24MP full-frame.
Shutter vibration (or not).
How to configure the camera for serious shooting.
Setup, IBIS performance, focusing.
Setup, IBIS performance, focusing.
Setup, IBIS performance, focusing.
Setup, IBIS performance, focusing.
Image quality.
Fast ultra wide angle for Nikon Z.
Fast wide angle for Nikon Z.
Ultra-wide fast zoom.
Ultra wide compact zoom for Nikon Z cameras.
Ultra-wide zoom lens.
Pancake zoom, wide angle to normal.
Fast mid-range zoom expressly designed for Nikon Z cameras.
Mid-range zoom expressly designed for Nikon Z cameras.
Ultra-wide zoom lens.
Ultra-wide zoom lens.
Moderate wide angle expressly designed for Nikon Z cameras.
Ultra-wide fast zoom.
Normal lens expressly designed for Nikon Z cameras.
Ultra high speed normal lens, flagship of the line.
Ultra-wide portrait lens.
Fast portrait telephoto for Nikon Z.
Telephoto macro lens.
Fast medium telephoto.
Fast portrait telephoto for Nikon Z.
Ultra high performance extreme wide angle.
Compact ultra-wide angle lens.
High performance wide angle.
High performance, high speed.
Fast wide angle.
High performance mild wide-angle.
Fast and gorgeous moderate wide angle Zeiss design.
Compact moderate wide angle.
Fast high performance normal lens of Zeiss design.
Compact macro lens focusing to 1:1.
Compact moderate wide angle for Sony mirrorless.
High performance, high speed.
High performance, high speed.
High performance, high speed.
High performance, high speed.
Compact normal lens for full-frame Sony mirrorless.
Top-grade medium telephoto.
Razor sharp medium telephoto with apodization filter.
Native-mount macro length designed by Zeiss.
Top-grade telephoto.
Fast extreme wide angle zoom.
Extreme wide angle zoom.
Pro-grade f/2.8 wide angle zoom, updated.
Pro-grade f/2.8 wide angle zoom.
Comapact ultra-wide zoom for Sony full frame mirrorless.
Wide range zoom aimed at bloggers.
Premiere mid-range zoom for Sony full frame mirrorless
Premiere mid-range zoom for Sony full frame mirrorless
Comapact mid-range zoom for Sony full frame mirrorless
Wide angle to telephoto zoom with optical stabilization.
10X superzoom.
Compact short-range zoom.
Wide mid-range zoom targeted at video shooters.
Barely good-enough telephoto zoom for Sony full frame mirrorless
Barely good-enough telephoto zoom for Sony full frame mirrorless
Compact telephoto macro zoom
Compact long range telephoto zoom for Sony full frame mirrorless
Hand-holdable super telephoto zoom.
Hand-holdable super telephoto zoom.
High-grade manual focus wide-normal lens.
Ultra high-speed normal lens.
High-grade manual focus normal lens.
Ultra high grade macro all-arounder.
Manual focus lenses for Sony Full-Frame Sony Mirrorless.
Outstanding ultra wide angle performer.
Outstanding wide angle, superb performer.
Manual focus moderate wide angle for full-frame mirrorless.
Manual focus normal lens for full-frame mirrorless.
Manual focus telephoto lens for full-frame mirrorless.
Canon’s first full-frame mirrorless.
Canon’s high-res mirrorless.
Compact ultra-wide zoom.
Fast ultra wide zoom lens.
Compact ultra-wide.
Fast standard zoom lens.
Bread and butter all-around zoom.
Bread and butter all-around zoom.
All-arounder compact lens with macro capability.
High speed normal lens optimized for Canon mirrorless.
Compact ultralight standard lens.
High speed portrait lens optimized for Canon mirrorless.
Fast telephoto zoom.
Compact telephoto zoom.
Compact super telephoto zoom.
Super telephoto, ultra slow aperture.
Super telephoto, ultra slow aperture.
Zeiss autofocus lenses Sony full-frame mirrorless.
Autofocus extreme wide angle for Sony full-frame mirrorless.
Autofocus wide angle for Sony full-frame mirrorless.
All-around slightly wide angle/normal with close focus.
Autofocus portrait lens for Sony full-frame mirrorless.
Apochromatic pin-sharp medium telephoto for Sony full-frame mirrorless.
General information about Fujfilm X.
Compact sibling of the Fujifilm X-Pro1
Interchangeable lenses on a 16MP APS-C sensor
Fujifilm's 24MP APS-C offering.
Wide angle zoom equivalent to 15-36mm
A low distortion ultra wide angle lens.
A compact fast pancake lens.
Fujifilm’s kit zoom for the X-E1
Compact moderate wide angle.
A fast normal lens.
Compact normal lens.
A bright short telephoto lens.
Apodization filter version of the 56/1.2.
Short telephoto macro lens.
Fisheye lens for Sony mirrorless.
Speed to match the Leica Noctilux.
Speed to match the Leica Noctilux-M, based on Mitakon Zonghyi optics.
Fast normal lens with autofocus.
Special effect lens.
Extreme wide angle with 'zero distortion'.
Extreme wide angle macro lens for Sony mirrorless.
Manual focus apodized lens for ultra smooth focus.
Ultra wide angle lens adapted from DSLR, native E-mount, all manual.
Wide angle lens adapted from DSLR, native E-mount, all manual.
Ultra fast medium telephoto manual focus lens.
Wide angle zoom equivalent (14-28mm equivalent).
A compact high performance fast wide angle.
A high performance mid-range zoom.
A fast moderate wide angle.
Fast portrait lens.
Olympus full Four Thirds macro lens.
Native Micro Four Thirds macro lens.
Olympus lenses for Micro Four Thirds cameras.
Beautiful bokeh, long reach fast speed, compact lens.
Super telephoto with superb bokeh and color correction.
A macro lens with high performance.
A fisheye with great contrast and high resolving power.
Compact wide angle equivalent to 16-36mm.
Fast, bright and well corrected wide angle.
Wide angle pancake lens.
A weak sibling covers the wide end
A fast and lovely 'normal' lens (50mm equiv) for Micro 4/3.
Ultra wide angle zoom.
Mid range zoom.
Pancake lens.
Wide angle for Micro Four Thirds or Sony E Mount/NEX.
Normal lens for Micro Four Thirds or Sony E Mount/NEX.
Fast, bright and highly corrected medium telephoto.
High performance super telephoto.
Rectilinear fisheye lens for Micro Four Thirds.
Foveon X3 true-color sensor for outstanding resolution.
Sigma’s raw file processing software, version 5.x.
Sigma’s raw file processing software, version 6.x.
Mirrorless Sigma Quattro sensor with interchangeable lenses.
Mirrorless Sigma Quattro larger APS-H sensor with interchangeable lenses.
Mid-2014 models with newly designed 3-layer APS-C sensor.
21mm f/5.6 equivalent FOV lens.
45mm f/2.8 equivalent FOV lens.
75mm f/4 equivalent FOV lens.
28mm f/2.8 equivalent lens on APS-C sensor.
45mm f/2.8 equivalent lens on APS-C sensor.
75mm f/2.8 equivalent lens on APS-C sensor.
[Archive] Sigma DP-2 with the amazing Foveon X3 sensor (original, LOW RES camera, not a Merrill).
General things to know about Four Thirds and Micro Four Thirds.
Still photos and gorgeous 4K UltraHD video.
A worthy upddate to the E-M5 with pro-grade build quality.
Superb ergonomic design in a compact camera.
Updated model with HighRes sensor shift mode.
Flagship model for 2017.
Full size m4/3 camera body with a video orientation.
Great image quality, but...
Panasonic G-1 especially compared to the Olympus E-P1. Intriguing results with RAW vs in-camera JPEG. RAW file included for your own analysis.
The best compact big-sensor digital camera yet?
Fixed 28mm lens with APS-C sensor free of anti-aliasing blur with wonderful color.
Razor sharp 28mm lens on APS-C sensor and outstanding usability and features.
Diminutive full-frame camera with 35mm f/2 fixed lens.
Full frame camera in an ultra-compact body with or without anti-aliasing filter.
Stunningly high image quality in a 20MP point and shoot tiny camera.
Stunningly high image quality in a 20MP point and wide range zoom.
Leica’s 28-70mm APS-C compact camera.
Shooting + post processing tips with high-res examples.
Leica’s large-sensor 'affordable' compact camera.
24 or 16 megapixels in a compact body with APS-C sensor.
Value camera: 24 megapixel APS-C sensor with EVF and vibration-free shutter.
Moderate wide angle for Sony NEX.
Use DSLR lenses at ~native focal length, and gain a stop of speed.
Ultra wide angle lens for Sony NEX or Fujifilm X.
Normal lens for Sony NEX or Fujifilm X.
Moderate telephoto macro lens for Sony NEX or Fujifilm X. Useful on full frame too!
Ultra high performance ultra-wide zoom lens.
Ultra high performance zoom lens.
Ultra high performance medium telephoto zoom.
Can smaller sensor cameras compete with larger ones on any basis?
Eliminating the camera body barrier— any kind of lens with Live View EVF and LCD
Use Leica M lenses on a digital back designed for them.
Does pricey M glass deliver on mirrorless?