Watch this great (as usual) video done by TheCameraStoreTV team. As you see Sony-Hasselblad are playing the main role as both best and worse camera of the year 🙂
The Sony A7-A7r has been chosen as best camera of the year (second place for the Pentax K-3 and third place for the tiny Panasonic GM1).
The [shoplink 22672 ebay]Hasselblad Lunar[/shoplink] is the worse camera of the year and on second place guess what you will find…the [shoplink 22673 ebay]Hasselblad Stellar[/shoplink] 🙂
P.S.: The best video camera is the Sony F5 and the best lens the 18-35mm Sigma which should be available as A-mount in January
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Loved it! Always to the point and passionate reviews. And very good choices for both the best and the worst of 2013.
I’ll quote you on that: they do really nice, good and fair “bias-less” reviews.
There should be more people like them…
I wish Sigma would create a ff of the 18-35, slower would be fine but keep the range
But you already have Sony 16-35 f/2.8. Why do you need another lens in the same range, that will probably have the same or similar price, with the same or similar specs?
Sigma did create a full frame 18-35 years ago.
Wait he pointed out that Pentax do not sponsor them to give good reviews of their products, but didn’t say the same for sony – does that mean they got a kick-back for putting the sony cameras at the top? I certainly hope not 🙁
No Pentax is clear underdog, SONY is not… 😀
Dpreview got poll for readers – A7r is distant second in it’s own category.
yeah, i got my own poll too if you like
LOL
Yea, only you are noone and dPreview is better known than CameraStore. See the difference?
Besides – it’s not the first voting or competition where A7 looses. Actually – camera of the year by the amount of titles won will be Olympus EM-1 by a huge margin seeing how it goes so far.
Considering the DPR user base is probably 85% CaNikon it’s kind of expected don’t you think?
😉
Considering that canon and nikon mirrorless cameras lag badly behind anyone else in that poll – your theory doesn’t hold a candle.
Didn’t dpreview users vote the OMD as best camera last year?
Unfortunately ,some weird folk from the mFT community where actively trawling other forums { not related to DPreview } trying to get folk to sign up for DPreview just to vote for the E-M5.Sad,desperate, excessive fanboyism { for sure } lunacy !! maybe.To go to this kind of effort to skew a vote on a camera forum site beggars belief
People do exactly the same on Sony forums. Don’t get excited.
Olympus mFT fanboys are in a league of their own when it comes to this kind of thing 🙂
You are all in denial. The classic Sony inferiority complex when it comes to m43. The FACT is that the Olympus E-M1 is THE 2013 camera of the year.
But don’t worry, eventually you’ll get the Oly class-leading 5-axis IBIS. And if Sony can stop making the A7 sound like a sewing machine, and add more features like the E-M1, then you may be on to something.
Ironically enough I have as yet never owned a Sony camera though the A7r is about to change that. I do however own the E-M1 which is a delight of technology ,its only downsides being the lack of progress in image quality, no better than the Feb 2012 E-M5.Along with its price, compared to other weather sealed DSLR models with larger better sensors { D7100/K3 etc}
Your post is rather reinforcing my point that for a certain group of Olympus users, fanboyism is literally taken to bizarre new levels.You are posting in a forum that has nothing to do with mFT or Olympus.Presumably about cameras you are not interested in.
Dpreviews poll seperates A7 and A7r. If you count them together they are No1 together with Olympus EM-1
Ridiculous. You are combining votes just so you can say that your precious Sonys are in the same league as the E-M1? Wow. That is amazing. Excuse me while I continue laughing.
Ohoho get a life m43 fanboy, just read dpreview comments, most people are the same opinion. However I couldn’t care who’s no 1 at a site like dpreview and even less for big overpriced body and tiny sensor 😉
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If only the K3 came in Nikon F mount, 8.3 FPS, 24 MP, but I don’t know the size of the buffer.
Nah, K-mount is not that bad. They got much more glass than micro43 and yet saying something bad about it these days is considered blesphemy.
(it being m43)
But I already own a lot of Nikon mount glass. DSLRs are cheap compared to lenses.
The Samsung 4K UHD Demos on their F9 Series is split in 4 pieces. Could it be that they recorded it with a JVC cam?
can’t wait for the “best drink of the 2013” !
Somewhere in California the “ultimate” CanIkon fanboy is throwing a hissy fit after viewing your video
it also says rx10 one of the top video cameras
Hey Dude, happy fecking Christmas, you have done an amazing job this year, must be a huge job looking after this site but thank you for your work. All the best.
Christmas morning here already so Merry Christmas Andrea and to all you loyal readers too. Enjoy the Season.
I would have agreed some days before, but I feel, I get more and more issues with the A7r: EVF is fine, but magnified it gets kind of wobbly, not very usable for usage of manual Lenses. Tested few lenses (for example 2.8 28 Distagon, 35 mm Takumar etc), nearly all of my lenses under and also the Zeiss Planar 1,7 50 get unsharp at corners (even at optimal Apperture), except the Lenses over 60mm. Had no issues regarding the shutter, but a no go with side light stepped down to at leasy f8 or more. I used a Leica 2.8 135,the 50s Planar and a Curtagon 35 today, all with lens hood attached. Spent some time at a river. Scenario from left to righ: forrest-river-free space-forrest located a bit higher. Diffuse light, as the sun has went down behind the trees on the right. No direct sunlight into the lenses, no lensflares. After going down to at least f8 and moving the camera around, I can see kind of burnt out areas at short sites, bit like flares. Used the cam landscaped. It seems, that the optimized micro lenses are crab. You can shadow it using something in addition to the hood, but its boring and seems to get more worse at longer f. I will have funny discussions with sony, as I a week over return timeframe. Seen same at diffuse light using 2 other lenses.
So the best and the worst cameras are those from Sony, both ends covered, I call it success 😉
At 9:39, reviewer says “it still has the stupid Minolta hot shoe”, when referring to the worst camera of the year, the Lunar.
It’s an odd day when the worst camera of the year has a hot shoe widely supported by third party for twenty years, and currently. But the best a7R camera of the year has no flash system worthy of professional usage. Where are the promises of the new Sony MIS (multi interface shoe)? It’s been well over a year and not even an off camera cable available. Pathetic.
That old “stupid Minolta hot shoe” works to satisfy professional needs. Kudos to Lunar for being the last Alpha with a pro flash system.
Sony kicking arse 2013…Bring on 2014..
Sony alpha domination next year. Let the bloodbath begin.
I would have agreed some days before, but I feel, I get more and more issues with the A7r: EVF is fine, but magnified it gets kind of wobbly, not very usable for usage of manual Lenses. Tested few lenses (for example 2.8 28 Distagon, 35 mm Takumar etc), nearly all of my lenses under and also the Zeiss Planar 1,7 50 get unsharp at corners (even at optimal Apperture), except the Lenses over 60mm. Had no issues regarding the shutter, but a no go with side light stepped down to at leasy f8 or more. I used a Leica 2.8 135,the 50s Planar and a Curtagon 35 today, all with lens hood attached. Spent some time at a river. Scenario from left to righ: forrest-river-free space-forrest located a bit higher. Diffuse light, as the sun has went down behind the trees on the right. No direct sunlight into the lenses, no lensflares. After going down to at least f8 and moving the camera around, I can see kind of burnt out areas at short sites, bit like flares. Used the cam landscaped. It seems, that the optimized micro lenses are crab. You can shadow it using something in addition to the hood, but its boring and seems to get more worse at longer f. I will have funny discussions with sony, as I a week over return timeframe. Seen same at diffuse light using 2 other lenses. Even in APS-C mode I have seen that. Same scenario using NEX -7 :no issues…
The Camera Store has always been anti-m43 and anti-Olympus. They are a joke. The camera of the year is the Olympus E-M1, and that is a fact (you don’t have to take my word for it – just look around the web as you know I’m right). The rest of you are in denial.
Enjoy your clickety-clack sewing machine shutter A7(r) and lack of IBIS. Of course, Sony copied the design of the Olympus OM-D retro-styled dSLR with the hump (as did Nikon, and Fuji will in January 2014). Through the Sony-Olympus arrangement, eventually you’ll see the class-leading 5-axis IBIS in the Sony A7(r). Just saving Sony’s butt.
Olympus innovates, all others copy.
“”” Sony copied the design of the Olympus OM-D retro-styled dSLR with the hump (as did Nikon, and Fuji will in January 2014)””””
Nikon’s DF design is based on the Nikon F series of cameras going back decades. The “hump” in DSLR cameras actually serves a real life practical purpose { you may not have noticed but they all have humps } as opposed to being merely a design “feature”.
Your interpretation of Sony investing in the massively loss making Olympus imaging division as a means to save Sony is pretty funny if you stop and think about it for just a second. Luckily Olympus is going to sell 52% more cameras this year than they did last year in a shrinking market. This assumes that Olympus tells the truth regarding their financial position, they do don’t they? :-){ don’t worry about the inconvenient fact that in the last 12yrs they have not met even one target}
Thank you for the morning chuckle,hope you enjoy the rest of your Christmas.I am just killing time waiting on my kids getting up.Just a tip keep of the Sherry till a little later 🙂
C.C. why don’t you troll around on pages you like, maybe Olympus-rumors? It’s sad that you come to a sony site and complain about their “crappy cameras”.
Is it some kind of inferiority complex because of your tiny sensor thingy? Olympus makes nice cameras, nobody says the opposite here! Both companies even collaborate and Sony invested in Olympus, maybe they wouldn’t exist anymore without Sony. So chill down, smoke a joint and celebrate Christmas with YOUR camera of the year?
I own a mFT camera, but you C.C. are an idiot…
Oh, we have a new troll! SOny is getting more and more interest then.
Call me when the E-M1 gets a bigger sensor 🙂
I would’ve bought a m43 Olympus camera back when I was searching for a new one but I really hate “fanboys”. That was one big thing which lead to my Nex-6.
^^
(I also love the bigger sensor for my old Rokkor lenses!)
Just for the record: Look at the comments on Youtube. A lot of “Where the f*** is the E-M1” whine ^^.
Camera of the year in my world is a brand spanking new a900 from a Sony outlet store. Lens of the year is a tokina 300mm atx f4 304 that for 500 dollars shiits on zooms costing four times the price. I spend cash on fast primes, mostly zeiss. 135mm is still my favorite. All these new cameras but it aint making your pictures any better now is it.
On another note, I really like the olympus omd-1 but camera of the year it is not. Tiny sensors are a marketing gimmick to pull a fast one on the mass suckers looking to shave a pound and pay thousands for the look at me privelege. As much as I’m not a huge fan of the half baked a7/R at least it has a real set of balls- so I agree with camera of the year. The reality is the e-mount can only get better as much as it pisses me- an alpha shooter- off. With no sensor limitations and adaptors out the ass, the skies the limit. For someone to say, who reviews cameras for a living, that Sony’s a7 might be the future of photography. Well damn, that says a lot about what Sony is capable of. Goodbye 2013 now give me my alpha.
What’s with the unprofessional drinking while doing reviews? Obviously they think it’s cool but I think it’s immature and boring.
Some sober opinions and judging would be nice.