Questions photographers and video creators often ask

mirrorless.io helps you choose a mirrorless camera body for a real photo or video project. The catalog now covers more than 300 bodies and more than 130 technical characteristics, while the assistant connects those facts to practical uses instead of relying on marketing labels.

Both. Classic mode keeps the journey concise and shows the most useful information. Expert mode exposes the full technical structure and personalization tools. Both modes are currently open to everyone, with no active payment or paywall.

The catalog filters and ranks bodies. The comparator places two or three bodies side by side. The assistant starts from your real use and preferences, then prepares weighted criteria and a relevant catalog ranking.

Use the assistant if you are starting from a project or do not know which specifications matter. Use the catalog if you already know your filters. Use the comparator when you have narrowed the choice to a few bodies.

• Open the assistant
• Browse the catalog
• Compare bodies

No. The site is a decision aid. It explains technical trade-offs, but hands-on testing and advice from a trusted professional remain valuable for an important decision.

The assistant uses 22 reviewed photo and video use cases. Each one assigns explicit weights to useful technical criteria. Autofocus, burst and buffer matter strongly for sport, while codecs, recording limits, heat management and monitoring matter more for many video projects.

No. The public recommendation is calculated from versioned weights, scoring rules and sourced camera data. It does not send your request to ChatGPT or another generative AI service. The word smart describes the decision support, not a chatbot.

No. Classic mode changes the amount of detail displayed and keeps its historical five-step journey. The underlying score still uses every active criterion. Expert mode has a separate six-step journey and can open either the official result or the personalization editor.

Compatibility measures how well a body matches the selected use. Reliability measures how complete and trustworthy the technical evidence behind that result is. Classic mode shows a concise reliability level; Expert mode details coverage, weighted confidence and the officially verified share.

An unknown value is not silently treated as an absent feature. It can reduce the displayed coverage or confidence. An Expert requirement with an unknown value keeps the camera in the results with a check-needed warning instead of excluding it without proof.

No. The ranking answers a specific use and set of preferences. The assistant reviews a Top 12 for each of the 22 uses and may group very close variants to avoid repetitive recommendations, while every published variant remains available in the normal catalog.

You can rename the project, adjust criterion weights from 0 to 10, define required features or exclusions, and keep only the overrides that differ from the official mirrorless.io baseline.

Yes. An Expert project can combine one, two or three official uses with proportions totaling 100%. The starting weights are the weighted average of those uses, then your own overrides are applied.

Yes. Expert requirements can set a minimum, maximum, equality, inclusion or exclusion depending on the criterion. A known incompatibility removes the body; an unknown value never becomes a false match and remains marked for checking.

No. Expert mode is currently free and usable without an account. Anonymous projects stay in the current browser, with a limit of five. A free account uses a conventional email address and password and can keep up to fifty synchronized projects.

• Open my account

Create the account with an email address and a password of at least twelve characters, including a lowercase letter, an uppercase letter, a number and a symbol. Brevo sends a confirmation email on behalf of mirrorless.io: its link only confirms the address and does not sign you in. You then return to the Account page and sign in with the password. A separate recovery email lets you choose a new password if needed.

• Create an account

A connected account privately synchronizes projects between devices, keeps their versions, and supports archive, import, export and deletion. Local projects can be transferred to the account after sign-in.

They let you record a private positive or negative experience for a camera and criterion, with a short reason. The Personal ranking shows their separate impact, while the Technical ranking and official camera facts remain unchanged.

Yes. A project owner can create a read-only, revocable public link. Account information, personal assessments and private notes are removed from the shared copy. You can revoke the link, export your data, delete projects or delete the account.

Public values are linked to documented sources whenever possible. mirrorless.io distinguishes official manufacturer material, specialist expert sources, open data and other public sources. Classic mode keeps the clearest official and open-data references; Expert mode exposes the full source detail.

No, and the site does not hide that limit. Every camera-and-criterion cell is given an explicit state, and recommendation pages expose reliability indicators. Verified facts, reviewed values, justified deductions and unresolved information remain distinguishable.

Unknown means the information has not been established reliably. Unavailable means the documented technology or capability is absent. Not applicable means the question no longer makes sense, for example a child video setting on a camera that has no video function.

Automated agents watch official pages, review source links and look for logical inconsistencies. They work in read-only mode or prepare review files: they cannot directly change the production catalog or bypass human validation.

Yes. Use the contact page and choose data correction. A precise model name, the criterion concerned and a public source link make the review much easier.

• Report a data issue

Firmware is the camera's internal software. Expert camera pages show the latest known public version when available, including its publication date, summary, main changes and manufacturer link. Cameras can also be explicitly marked as having no public firmware found or ended support.

The bilingual blog publishes sourced camera and technology analyses. It separates the real publication date from the date of the event being discussed. RSS is a simple subscription feed that does not require an account.

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• Follow the English RSS feed

Photo and video often depend on different priorities. A strong stills camera may have limits in codecs, rolling shutter, heat or monitoring, while a video-focused body may not be the best choice for every photo project.

Previous generations remain useful in many real projects. An older camera can still be an excellent choice when its strengths fit the project and its limitations are understood.

The public comparison currently focuses on camera bodies. Mount information gives useful context, but the lens and adapter catalog is not yet published and should not be treated as part of the current recommendation.

Not automatically. Existing lenses, handling, color workflow, weight, service and personal preference still matter. The score is a structured signal, not a final decision.

No. mirrorless.io does not sell cameras and no sponsored ranking is active. Recommendations are intended to remain explainable through criteria, weights and evidence.

English and French are the two active public languages. Earlier translations are kept for future work but are not exposed in navigation, search-engine language tags or the sitemap during this development phase.

The contact form is protected against spam and stores the message so it can be answered. An internal workflow may receive it when enabled. Account projects remain private by default; the privacy page explains analytics, export and deletion rights.

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