You can fire away in any light or even no light: at ultrahigh ISO, night shots didn’t get grainy. The Test: With a ginormous 25-megapixel sensor-at 35.8 by 23.9 millimeters, it’s twice the size of the Nikon 1 V3’s-the a7 II ($1,700) is all about big, layered images. The Verdict: “My new favorite travel camera,” concluded one tester. The smartphone-style controls are brilliant, and the battery tolerated temperatures near zero. And at a mere 19.5 ounces with a 14–42mm zoom lens, it was easy to use one-handed. It absolutely crushed a test shoot during a Colorado ski tour the 16-megapixel sensor didn’t pixelate highlights even in white-room blowing snow. The Test: Want the advantage of dozens of lens options minus the weight, bulk, and cost? Get this ($600).
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Read the full Gear of the Year review.īest For: Replacing your current adventure camera. Tech: 5 The 1 V3 ($1,200) is faster and, in many ways, more capable than a DSLR. The 1 V3 ($1,200) is faster and, in many ways, more capable than a DSLR. And phone photography? It’s all about the apps. Other tech leaps allow the Gear of the Year–winning Nikon 1 V3 to shoot video at an incredible 1,200 frames per second and the Lytro Illum (page 65) to capture every detail in the frame-from a grain of sand on the beach to a ship in the harbor-as if it were the focal point of the shot. Like every still camera here, it ditches heavy mechanical innards for mirrorless digital systems, so you get a smaller device that does just as much. To support that first claim, consider that the $700 Canon PowerShot G7 X (page 64) can capture 6.5 frames per second, the same as DSLRs costing five times as much. Michael Frank The headlines for 2015: DSLRs are disappearing, technologies are transforming video and photography-and you shoot almost everything with your phone. The headlines for 2015: DSLRs are disappearing, technologies are transforming video and photography-and you shoot almost everything with your phone.