Bought my piece of plastic trash canon t3i in April 2011 despite similar warnings from experts like yourself. 6 years and 90k+ pictures later it's doing fine, thank you.
Valiant Thor: I agree with this article and the camera that want to make to "get out and shoot" philosophy. I feel the same way about my new E-M1 Mark II acquisition. The only reason I didn't choose the X-T2 is the poor video and the funky Fuji menu system. Oh, and the fact that I have about 35 Panasonic and Olympus Micro Four-Thirds lenses. :)
The IQ in the bike video is, unfortunately, very poor.
Akpinxit: come to think of it : this kind of camera , which NASA may choose to install on it's vehicles\shuttles - no touch screen nor video , but though and capable to capture high resolution scene in single shot
Files too big Transmission from space would take forever
rinkos: sorry ..i find the colors dull . as if they were washed a bit. quality is good, but the color richness reminds me a compact camera .
as for the other camera aspects..people have already named the flaws they found .
You are probably used to either Sony or Samsung colors, which tend to be on the saturated side. To me the colors look great, sharpness is fine except for the extreme wide angle of the lens. Seems like a very nice travel camera for people who don't use EVFs. Good job producing this nice gallery, DPR
TN Args: Let's say Sigma released a 35mm f/2.8 for $150 and its optics were the same. Everyone would say "well la di da, I expect no less, 35mm and f/2.8 is hardly a challenge."
And they would be right.
actually when Canon introduced the excellent 40/2.8 at dirt cheap prices people were not impressed. honestly I see no reason to get excited about this expensive slow Sony lens.
mpgxsvcd: Micro Four Thirds just sucker punched Canon and Nikon. They didn't even see it coming. Now if only we could get Andre Agassi or Ashton Kutcher to advertise for Panasonic people would actually know what m4/3s is.
Canon 70d is selling like crazy. It will continue to do as well regardless of the the GH4.
Aroart: I think Canons video dept just had a stroke. The gh3 noise in lowlight put me off but the gx7 and gm1 video output is close to the 5d mark 3. Who knows maybe canons new 7d m2 will have 4k. If not canons going to have lots of video guys switching over..If Pani put in a 5 axis image stabilizing sensor than canon video based line will be fuc!?# $.....
Switching systems is very expensive, and 4k is not an absolute requirement yet. If I was a videographer using the Canon system I would have waited for Canon to come out with a 4k DSLR. Canon are building a solid video-oriented DSLR line with their dual-pixel and STM technologies, don't write them off yet.
(unknown member): Samsung's rubbing elbows with cell phone users is not going to save their photo business (what little there is of it in the first place).
Samsung had a chance to really get ahead of Sony and other mirrorless makers and totally dropped the ball. Then they ran off the field and realized later what they had done. They then try to come back into the game. Uh no... it don't work that way Samsung.
CameraLabTester: There is a big difference between voting with a button click and voting with the wallet.
What DPR should do is to review the results of this survey to ACTUAL SALES of the same period.
Now THAT would be a very interesting article to digest.
Good DPR assignment too.
Regardless, this survey is fun exercise for DPR viewers.
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Of course these are two different things.
But that is just the point. Last year I voted for the Nikon d800 although I cannot afford it, I don't need it, and I won't buy it because I have a bunch of canon lenses. Still, I liked it and I thought it was the camera of the year.
Jozef M: Oz??? Gram??? Dpreview could do the mats for us decimal users, that would be helpfull and nice.
By the way, the Olympus is a micro 3.386666582 cm camera.
Boss of Sony: Boring focal length in my opinion.
I don't think it is boring.
More like unnatural, not esthetic.
Lies, damned lies and statistics.
MikeAmos: Looks like a plastic hunk of rubbish.
Bought my piece of plastic trash canon t3i in April 2011 despite similar warnings from experts like yourself.
6 years and 90k+ pictures later it's doing fine, thank you.
Valiant Thor: I agree with this article and the camera that want to make to "get out and shoot" philosophy. I feel the same way about my new E-M1 Mark II acquisition. The only reason I didn't choose the X-T2 is the poor video and the funky Fuji menu system. Oh, and the fact that I have about 35 Panasonic and Olympus Micro Four-Thirds lenses. :)
The IQ in the bike video is, unfortunately, very poor.
Apparently it's bad lack to skip the number 6, not to use it.
They can still rectify this by calling the next model note 6.
yahoo2u: Looks better being held by those gentle hands.
sorry, posted by mistake
AbrasiveReducer: A (relatively) simple optical viewfinder would have made this a cult camera and distinguished it from the GR and $300 Coolpix A.
Please take a quick look at picture #7
Akpinxit: come to think of it : this kind of camera , which NASA may choose to install on it's vehicles\shuttles - no touch screen nor video , but though and capable to capture high resolution scene in single shot
Files too big
Transmission from space would take forever
RichRMA: The D300's "litter runt" edition 3 is born! BTW, why use a wide angle shot to make the 18-135mm lens look so much bigger than it is?
They also presented the camera using a female chinese soldier in uniform, so that the camera would look huge in comparison to her tiny hands
Howard: So why didn't they put these sensors in the 7D II ???
The 7D II sensor has the dual pixel feature for better live view focusing
rinkos: sorry ..i find the colors dull . as if they were washed a bit.
quality is good, but the color richness reminds me a compact camera .
as for the other camera aspects..people have already named the flaws they found .
You are probably used to either Sony or Samsung colors, which tend to be on the saturated side.
To me the colors look great, sharpness is fine except for the extreme wide angle of the lens. Seems like a very nice travel camera for people who don't use EVFs.
Good job producing this nice gallery, DPR
TN Args: Let's say Sigma released a 35mm f/2.8 for $150 and its optics were the same. Everyone would say "well la di da, I expect no less, 35mm and f/2.8 is hardly a challenge."
And they would be right.
actually when Canon introduced the excellent 40/2.8 at dirt cheap prices people were not impressed.
honestly I see no reason to get excited about this expensive slow Sony lens.
mpgxsvcd: Micro Four Thirds just sucker punched Canon and Nikon. They didn't even see it coming. Now if only we could get Andre Agassi or Ashton Kutcher to advertise for Panasonic people would actually know what m4/3s is.
Canon 70d is selling like crazy. It will continue to do as well regardless of the the GH4.
The GH4 is a very cool camera, though.
Aroart: I think Canons video dept just had a stroke. The gh3 noise in lowlight put me off but the gx7 and gm1 video output is close to the 5d mark 3. Who knows maybe canons new 7d m2 will have 4k. If not canons going to have lots of video guys switching over..If Pani put in a 5 axis image stabilizing sensor than canon video based line will be fuc!?# $.....
Switching systems is very expensive, and 4k is not an absolute requirement yet.
If I was a videographer using the Canon system I would have waited for Canon to come out with a 4k DSLR.
Canon are building a solid video-oriented DSLR line with their dual-pixel and STM technologies, don't write them off yet.
Kurt_K: Stellar optics, no doubt, but man are these Touit lenses ugly.
LOL, I was just thinking: beautiful lenses, wonder how the optics are.
grafli: Well this lens is obsolet with the existence of the Sigma 18-35mm F1.8
No. The Nikon is FF and the Sigma can only be mounted on APSC cameras.
(unknown member): Samsung's rubbing elbows with cell phone users is not going to save their photo business (what little there is of it in the first place).
Samsung had a chance to really get ahead of Sony and other mirrorless makers and totally dropped the ball. Then they ran off the field and realized later what they had done. They then try to come back into the game. Uh no... it don't work that way Samsung.
NX300 is old news, stale.
Carl
Don't underestimate non-USA markets.
CameraLabTester: There is a big difference between voting with a button click and voting with the wallet.
What DPR should do is to review the results of this survey to ACTUAL SALES of the same period.
Now THAT would be a very interesting article to digest.
Good DPR assignment too.
Regardless, this survey is fun exercise for DPR viewers.
.
Of course these are two different things.
But that is just the point. Last year I voted for the Nikon d800 although I cannot afford it, I don't need it, and I won't buy it because I have a bunch of canon lenses. Still, I liked it and I thought it was the camera of the year.
It's a game. Enjoy it.
Pentax can enjoy their 15 minutes of fame...
Because the K3 (a fine camera, by the way) is going to be all forgotten about once the 7d mk II is introduced.