Last week, Mathieu and I ticked off a big item on our bucket list: seeing and photographing the puffins on Skomer Island in South Wales. Every year between April and August, these beloved birds flock in the thousands to the island to breed, only to return to the sea for the rest of the year once […]
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12 months : 12 images – A look back at 2016
2016 was another amazing year for us here at MirrorLessons and here are just a few of the reasons! we launched Mirrorless Curation, our second website, exactly one year ago we started up a third website called Mirrorless Comparison where we focus on comparisons between cameras and lenses we put more effort into growing our MirrorLessons YouTube […]
Voigtländer 12mm f/5.6 for Sony E-Mount Sample Images and First Impressions
Since the release of the first generation of A7 cameras, I’ve had the chance to test some Voigtländer M-mount lenses on the A7 and then the A7r mark II. The first camera had various issues: heavy purple fringing, vignetting and colour shift but the results got better with the new sensors as you can see […]
The red kites are back! – Sony A7r II, a6300, Sigma MC-11 and 150-600mm Contemporary lens
It had been a while since I last went to my favourite red kite feeding station to photograph these magnificent birds in flight. Luckily for me, a new opportunity came up when I received the Sigma MC-11 EF to E-mount adapter to review last week. One of the lenses I asked the brand to send […]
Silver Studded Blue Butterflies at the Great Orme – A Lumix GX80 / OM-D E-M1 Gallery
My family has the quirky tradition of tracking down and photographing a new species of butterfly every summer. This year, we settled upon the Silver Studded Blue, so named for the light blue reflective scales on the underside of its wing that glint in the sunlight. Most colonies are scattered along the southern coast of the […]