In my latest issue of Pop Photo they named the D3x camera of the year. The other finalist were the Canon 7D and Olympus E-P1.

Saw that as I sat on the pooper tonight.

so they named the most expensive DSLR available the camera of the year? Hrm, lemme guess, somewhere in the first 5 pages there's a full page spread Nikon ad too?

Don't get me wrong, the D3x is an amazing camera, but who many readers can actually afford one? The 5Dii makes more sense to me honestly, as do the 7D and ep1/gf1...

wasnt the 5Dii released in '08? i dunno their requirements for camera of the year, but its not a far fetch to think it is chosen from those release in 2009. the version of the article on their website doesnt specify.

and the D3X is freakin awesome.

EDIT: 5Dii was a nominee in 2008

Originally Posted by jacobsen1

so they named the most expensive DSLR available the camera of the year? Hrm, lemme guess, somewhere in the first 5 pages there's a full page spread Nikon ad too?

Don't get me wrong, the D3x is an amazing camera, but who many readers can actually afford one?

I agree. That's like Consumer Reports saying that a Mercedes CLK 500 is car of the year... sure, it is an amazing car, but how many average people can afford one?

clearly the GF1 should have been on the list...

Originally Posted by MK19

I agree. That's like Consumer Reports saying that a Mercedes CLK 500 is car of the year... sure, it is an amazing car, but how many average people can afford one?

My sister has one but it's a CLK 55 AMG so I don't know if that makes a difference, nice car though.

what did they do? take the highest priced one and give it an award.

Also about the car thing, I think you'd be surprised. It might just be the people you know or the area you live in, only a few people in my neighborhood have cars like that. Now if I drive to the next town over or like my old place in Houston literally a single person might own 5-9 Lambo's/Ferrari's/Bentley's each and this goes on for entire communities at a time.