Have Your Say: Best Gear of 2016

Not sure it's sponsored by Sony 😊
Can't wait to see next year's results with the a99ii beating the d5 ☺

Haa! That explains it. It is seriously under everyone's radar then. That's fine with us.

Not sure who they were selling them to when no body voted for them in the first round.

Where's Canon - we're still waiting for a product worth being on the list. Not some misplaced smug post "busy selling..." wtfc even if they're "selling" unless you're heavily invested in canon stock. If you are invested, your portfolio needs significant help.

Canon is busy crippling the video specs on the upcoming 6d2...

I'm surprised none of canon's lenses made the list. But I guess revisions of old lenses aren't that noteworthy.

So DPR readers have judged the a6300 to be superior to the a6500??? No, it is not about the $400 price difference. Had Sony skipped the a6300 and gone directly to the a6500, it would have awarded gold, etc. Apparently, providing more choices and more frequent product updates in a negative for DP Review and its readers.

I think that, for a lot of people, it IS about the $400 price difference.

Maybe so, but the a6500 fixes some of the major gaps in the a6300 release -- buffer lock up, video stopping abruptly, etc. plus adds IBIS. The IBIS is a boon to both video and stills -- and there are many e-mount native lenses that don't have OSS. And, of course, if you are adapting non-native lenses as I do, IBIS is a must-have. The a6300, on the other hand, seems like a minor upgrade to the a6000 at double the price.

More significant than a 10-second poll, the price of used a6300s have dropped precipitously on eBay now that the a6500 has come out. These sellers are willing not only to pay the $400, but take a $250+ loss when they resell the a6300. And no one is stepping to bid up the price of these hardly used a6300s. So that's what the market tells us ...

Hi Barney, I have not missed the first round of voting, and thats the point. It´s almost impossible to rate the 6300 over the 6500, or would you? But...your votingsystem managed it to get the 6300 in the "overall product of the year" list, instead of the a6500. Not a big deal of course, but surprising nevertheless!

It wasn't our voting system, so much as the actual votes. The a6300 and a6500 were in different polls, and the a6500 lost out to other products.

This poll is the sixth and final poll, of six that we've run over the past few weeks. I think you missed the first round.

"For the past few weeks we've been running a series of polls to find out what you - our readers - think of the major product releases of 2016. For the first round of voting we made initial five polls covering lenses, compact cameras and interchangeable lens cameras (ILCs). Now that those polls have closed, we're pleased to announce the winners."

cbphoto123 - I own a 5D MkIV, 5DS R & A99II. Simply - I didn't vote for any Canon products because NONE of their 2016 product releases were innovative and/or market changing/leading...

I think the actual point of the camera is to have controls that are reminiscent of the past, and though the body may emulate a film camera, the amount of tech they through into something that small is impressive. The luxury of today is we have so many brands to choose from. If you want experimental internally and externally, give the sigma cameras a try, though new and experimental isn't always good. One way or the other, give me something I can fall in love with.

Hey, I use a Nikon Df and OK it's a retro design but having used it now for a while.....it handles (for me) brilliantly and If they bring out a Df 2, I'll be on it like a shot......and no, I don't sport a hipsta beard!

I can't remember the last time I went into it's menus, all the controls are to hand....brilliant. I can set Them all without even switching the camera on.

OK, the grip 'ain't as big and curvy as my last Nikon FF DSLR but i don't find it a problem, like I didn't find it a problem using my Nikon film SLRs all those years ago; plus in street, pub & social situations, people don't get so freaked out when I get it out of my bag.

No gizmos, no video, just pure photography.....which just me just fine.....😀

The light gathering and exposure is F/4 don't worry about thay. It's just the depth of field that is equivalent to f/8.

Which is pretty narrow really. For a diffused background in a scene I'd have to set the lens to F/4 and shoot from afar at 80/100mm. It WILL get shallow DOF. But only on the long end.

It's however not a problem for landscape/familly/travel as you want sharp F8 anyway even on a FF camera.

It had its use, but a 50mm f/1.8 on APS-C or FF will achieve a look simply worlds away from 50mm f/8 on m43s chip. Not better. Different.

I like shallow.

TBH I don't think this lens would have that much appeal to me were it half its price. If you're shooting landscapes/objects in decent light you could stop down the 14-140 and get something reasonably sharp. If you're shooting people, or want a bit more control over DoF - well that's the reason there are so many fast primes available for MFT. I just struggle to work out why this is such a great lens and given that it's relatively slow [especially for the format] why it should be so popular.

Personally I would really hope that Sigma might consider doing something akin to their APSc based 16-35 f1.8 for MFT - I've even considered buying one with a metabones adapter, but I think a similar native optic [it would still be relatively large even with a smaller imaging circle] might be a real winner. They're what

@ Ebrahim Saadawi
"The light gathering and exposure is F/4 don't worry about thay. It's just the depth of field that is equivalent to f/8."

Well actually it's not - because the sensor is only capturing 1/4 of the light [because it's only 1/4 the size], the light gathering is approximately 2 stops less - which is about the difference you'll get in ISO levels all things being equal. But that isn't [to me] so important because it only makes a big difference in extremis. DoF control is more of an issue because it's one of the main creative influences you have on a finished image - and like you, I like shallow. [So I'm largely agreeing with you].