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The Top 10 Mirrorless Cameras (2015 Edition)

26/11/2015 By Heather 3 Comments

With Halloween and Thanksgiving done and the palpable energy of the holiday season in the air, it is all too clear that the final days of 2015 are upon us, which also means that it is time for us to round up the top mirrorless cameras of the year!

What is the best mirrorless full-frame camera (2015)?

13/11/2015 By Heather 10 Comments

Full-frame cameras are commonplace on the DSLR market, with models available from Nikon, Canon, Sony and soon Pentax, but they have yet to permeate the mirrorless market to the same degree.

This can be attributed not to the physical impossibility of fitting a mirrorless body with a full-frame sensor but the difficulty of achieving an optimum balance between body size and image quality.

The problem for manufacturers that want to produce mirrorless full-frame cameras is that the word mirrorless has become synonymous with compactness and portability. This is easy enough to achieve with smaller sensors like APS-C or Four Thirds but becomes much more challenging with full-frame, especially if you want to introduce modern features such as autofocus and optical stabilisation into the lenses.

The best mirrorless cameras under $500 – 2015 edition

16/10/2015 By Mathieu 8 Comments

When beginners or amateurs are faced with buying their first mirrorless camera, the most they are willing to spend is usually around $500 (US). Although we’d written a list back in 2013 detailing the best mirrorless cameras under $500, we felt it was high time to update it with both the latest models and cameras that have come down in price since their release.

5 Mirrorless Cameras with an Electronic Viewfinder You’ll Actually Enjoy Using

24/08/2015 By Heather

When mirrorless cameras first started to appear on the market back in 2008 and 2009, the only models to incorporate an electronic viewfinder into the body were the Panasonic Lumix G1 and G2. There were others such as the Olympus Pen E-P2 that provided you with the option of an external electronic viewfinder but for everything else, you were stuck with the LCD screen.

Then, two years ago, Olympus set the standard with the OM-D E-M1 whose viewfinder was among the biggest, brightest and sharpest on the market. It became both a reference and a source of competition for the likes of Fujifilm, Sony, Panasonic, Samsung, and Leica, all of who went on to produce mirrorless cameras with outstanding electronic viewfinders of their own.

The Panasonic LX100 – 5 reasons it is one of the best cameras for vlogging

21/08/2015 By Heather 9 Comments

Vlogging, or video blogging, has become a popular method of reviewing products and sharing information, perhaps even more so than its printed equivalent. With the spoken word and video being so much more immediate and interactive than static mediums like text and photographs, it is little wonder that many people turn to video reviews before anything else.