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Photography tips, Sony camera guides, Creative Look recipes, and app updates.
Send Creative Look Recipes to Sony Wirelessly
Connect AlphaLuma to a Sony camera via Bluetooth, a Wi-Fi Direct QR code or your home network, write Creative Look recipes cable-free and fix connection issues.
AlphaLuma Recipe Lab: Tune Sony Creative Look on Live View
Tune a Sony Creative Look on the camera's live view from your iPhone: switch looks, dial in the adjustments and white balance, then save to a Custom Look slot.
Recipes Without the Cable: Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and LAN in AlphaLuma 1.1.3
AlphaLuma 1.1.3 connects to your Sony over Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or your home network. Write a whole recipe, monitor, and use the new Recipe Lab — no cable.
I Built a Camera Monitor Into AlphaLuma
Live view from your Sony Alpha over USB, with grids, zebra, focus peaking, false color, scopes, safe frames and Creative Look switching. Here is what it does.
Focus Peaking: Three Levels, Four Colours, No More Zooming to 100%
Focus peaking in the AlphaLuma monitor: three sensitivity levels, four outline colours, and why the colour you pick matters more than you would think.
Zebra, False Color, Histogram, Waveform: Four Ways to Not Trust Your Screen
Four exposure tools in the AlphaLuma monitor, what each one actually answers, and the order I read them in when the sun makes my phone screen lie.
Switching Creative Look From the Monitor — the One Tool That Changes the Camera
Pick a look on your phone and the camera changes with it. 12 built-in looks plus 6 custom slots, switchable while you watch a full-size live view.
One Tap from Phone to Camera: Import Creative Look Recipes over USB
AlphaLuma's USB recipe import, August 2026: pick a Creative Look recipe on your iPhone, tap once, and it lands in your Sony camera in seconds.
Send Recipes Straight to Your Sony — Over a Cable
AlphaLuma now writes recipes into your camera's Creative Look over USB. No more typing a dozen parameters into the camera menu by hand.
Hello from AlphaLuma
Meet the team behind AlphaLuma — a companion app built by Sony photographers, for Sony photographers.