The Best and Worst Cameras and Lenses of 2023

[@SeanPaulPhoto]

Please, for the love of God. Don't. Ever. Stop. This. Series. You guys are amazing, props to Peta and my holiday's truly aren't complete until the games begin and the drinks are flowing. Cheers! Edit - *Boop!* Edit Edit - Orientated Mother Trucker! Edit edit edit - I woke my wife and sleeping baby in the room up 2 or 3 times trying to stifle laughter. Wish me luck trying to explain that one in the morning lmao

[@SundayRacers]

10 minutes in and Chris looked wasted already. One of the better B&W episodes of the last few years

[@Photobuffeddy1314]

lol 😂

[@mne9476]

5 min. You were being too nice

[@lanekerr5272]

The ‘boop’ at 6 minutes tho 😂

[@graeme6539]

It's about body mass though - he's half the other guy's size !

[@davidalanmedia]

I look forward to this post all year long!

[@itzamna3080]

YES! the tradition lives on!

[@karikaru]

For photographers, videographers, and camera nerds the world over - this is peak entertainment

[@RezaTamez]

Get them more drinks…. and let them debate…..I can bing on it till Christmas!!

[@Deadly_Laser]

Chris' lens-juggling abilities are terrifying

[@niccollsvideo]

Terrifyingly amazing! I flip lenses better when I’m drunk. Didn’t even drop it once!

[@karikaru]

Lens juggling and lens chugging

[@richardbutler8532]

​@@niccollsvideo- well, not in the clips that made the edit. ;)

[@chrisw443]

I was dying of laughter with jordans face! hehehehehehe

[@TheKetchupPacket]

I was praying don't be like Linus from LTT, and drop that....

[@BrownieX001]

Love this tradition. Thanks for continuing.

[@bburchellphotos]

You know Christmas is coming when Chris and Jordan do the yearly run down with drinks and games! :D Also, you can't have Christmas without Chris ;)

[@niccollsvideo]

I’m the best ornament around!

[@alen2937]

Oi mate, now you make me spit my drink, lol. Preparing a cloth for next year then, best holidays for everybody. @@niccollsvideo

[@kaneclements7761]

Getting pissed whilst making any kind of video carries an element of risk that it might all go badly wrong. Big thumbs up to Chris and Jordan for making, every year, great content whilst absolutely bladdered. Nobody else I can think of could do it. Classic again and loved it. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all.

[@MrJapanforce]

Panasonic s5ii x. The one and only. Proud user of Lumix cameras since 2008. Never looked back.

[@Edwin--]

Thanks for another year of nice and entertaining camera reviews and podcasts. Glad to see you guys landed well with Peta Pixel and look forward to seeing more next year. Happy holidays!

[@point_and_shooter]

Chris deciding to drink from the lens at the end is peak camera nerd comedy.

[@steezyasfvck]

Beer and camera talk, what's not to love about this. Would be curious to know what brewery this is!

[@niccollsvideo]

We state it in the video but it's Tool Shed Brewing Company here in Calgary

[@steezyasfvck]

@@niccollsvideo Literally saw that mentioned a few seconds after my comment haha. Thanks again dude. Cheers

[@MM-vs9td]

@steezyasfvck Damn I never knew you were interested in photo related topics as well. Appreciate the music you share on your platform🙌

[@niccollsvideo]

@@steezyasfvckYour Lo-Fi tracks are beautiful! I’m gonna check out more of your channel when I’m tying flies and such.

[@chuawee]

I’m so glad this series (and you both) continues despite what had happened.

[@fototrainerchristian]

A fixed date every year! I'm celebrating it. Greetings from Vienna, Austria!

[@AlfonsoSalgueiroLora]

The highlight of the camera gear talk!!! Thank you for all your hard work, cheers guys!

[@chloeweiter2933]

I stumbled upon this page randomly while researching cameras as I want to get into wildlife photography. You guys have made me laugh for sure and are helping me to narrow down what I'm looking for while also learning about photography. Thank you!

[@neffknows1]

Camera Guess Who? Is an absolutely inspired idea. I want an app-based version that generates a random board from the full DPR database. Probably not a game with mass market appeal, but I think I could be a champion.

[@nicolask.3825]

17:45 oh please, Chris ages like fine wine.

[@niccollsvideo]

Awe shucks!

[@dccoletrain]

All the X-S20 owners such as myself watching this video… 😂 Glad you’re still doing this episode.

[@paresmi]

27:58 Chris taking a lens swig 😂

[@martinstitchener2430]

Thanks for another brilliant and funny best and worst, I am so glad you kept this tradition going. Although it is a bit early I wanted to say thank you PetaPixel for a great 2023 and Happy Christmas PetaPixel team. PS.

[@nomanCyclewala]

"what if he enjoys it" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 , this duo is just something else

[@snippdoggyproductions]

Fun Video fellas. It was good to see you at the Shed that day and see you in action!!! Chris ... love the drinking from the lens at the end. Cheers.

[@MarkBennettCameraCrisis]

You guys make KZbin better

[@PhilKnall]

You can tell you're watching a Canadian when their breath is freezing while they're wearing short sleeves.

[@PieterBreda]

So basically, I have been watching you two idiots for over 10 years now.😊😊

[@niccollsvideo]

Who’s the idiot now! 😂

[@daydalaus]

I was afraid this video wasn't coming this year, but I'm happy to see it. What I need t know is how many drinks Chris's had at the beginning of the video and how many at the end, maybe next year you can put a counter! I know I would appreciate it

[@niccollsvideo]

I had the mimosa and then about six full pints.

[@daydalaus]

Ah, looked like a strong mimosa! haha. You won the drink count for sure, that's a victory@@niccollsvideo

[@silvercruze2191]

Nikon has really impressed this year. Glad to see it coming back up, good show guys 👍🏼

[@jonfletcher147]

Legend. Look forward to these every year

[@macmac6479]

I bought the Z8 with the Trinity! Just brilliant package!

[@cmaciasjimenez]

Loved it. One of the all time best. Thank you

[@billlyl3725]

Honestly this is a fabulous holiday tradition

[@ChocolateThunder6]

I love you guys. Don't ever stop doing you.

[@jean-philippeperetti8463]

You 2 are just hilarious. I'm always looking forward to your end of the year best of videos. Buuurrrp!

[@kh1188ish]

Chris’ competition suggestion for next year: “competitive reloading, target shooting.” [while drinking?] Jordan: 😳

[@6gwilliams]

Great as usual, thanks guys. Cheers

[@cordel25]

Amazing video as always!one of the best duos!

[@whereismylife]

That M11 monochrom is the correct answer. Considering picking up the Pentax K-3 Mark III Monochrome, an entirely new system for me, just because the leica is out of my budget. I really want those beautiful black and white tones and crazy low light / better noise distribution from removing that color array filter.

[@tubularificationed]

You would get your beautiful black and white tones via playing around with e.g. curves in Photoshop or Lightroom. True analog-looking noise can only be achieved when photographing noise free at low ISO (or denoising higher ISO images), i.e. getting rid of any digital noise, and then simulate film noise with e.g. a dedicated plug-in. crazy low light? You wouldn't want photographing auroras in B&W? I haven't seen a single noteworthy B&W photo done in "crazy low light". Not worth taking. With a color camera, you keep decisive B&W benefits: 1- higher dynamic range (for high contrast scenes). This is achieved from the RAW converter's highlight recovery, which exploits that one or two color channels still have tonal information, while the brightest color already hits the histogram limit. A B&W camera (recording the sum of all colors) would be already clipped = useless there, while a color camera can recover e.g. bright white clouds from the not-yet-clipped color channels. 2- better high ISO results (lower noise), because denoising software has access to the color noise, and treats that particularly efficiently with dedicated algorithms. Whereas a B/W camera simply throws all color noise on top of luminance noise. Fox example, on a color camera, a noise outlier pixel will have a color, making it easy to separate it from the scene's texture, and to remove it. Whereas on a B/W camera, it is as gray as the scene's texture, therefore easily overlooked by a denoiser. Also, the next-gen AI denoisers require color images, they are trained solely on how noise appears on such images. 3- applying flexible color weighing when converting to B/W in postprocessing. For example, locally differently for different parts of the image. Or even negative weights for a color for more creative options. 4- removing the strong color fringing of Pentax lenses, with the help of the color of the fringes. Not possible with B&W cameras, where fringes would be white or gray fringes in their full glory, baked into the photo forever. 5- retouching, such removing distracting objects, or any workflow requiring masks: Only with full color (i.e. before B&W conversion), such masks (i.e. the objects selections) may have sufficient quality, or may be even possible. Furthermore, the next-generation ultra-high quality AI selection aids have been trained solely on colored objects.

[@cdrkennon]

The Pentax K3 III monochrome is indeed awesome. It’s a different experience. Those talking about converting image to BnW in Photoshop haven’t tried the camera. You have to work with the RAW images from the K3 III monochrome to see the difference. KobieMC channel and others have great discussions of the surprising results. Low light? Indeed, phenomenal. I own one and love it.

[@solusquinto3086]

Damn ... it's the time of the year ... again. Crazy times, crazy times indeed. The episode I'm waiting a whole year for!

[@SteveMcClanahan]

Always my favorite video of the year. Like watching a 30 minute train crash! Thanks guys and Happy New Year!

[@chuckl7713]

I'm only a third in and already Chris is off his rocker.

[@WparuSlowach]

I was waiting for it. Tradition 😅 Thanks Guys for another great year.

[@AnahatNaad]

Thanks for keeping the tradition alive 🎊

[@starbase218]

Cheers guys. Great video. :)

[@agrafernando]

I have been waiting für this all year. Here is to the next 10 years 🍻

[@findefuchs]

Already looking forward to next year👀

[@raphduck3558]

Best KZbin Content all year

[@himalayareaders]

Excellent annual update.

[@akyerit]

Im glad to see the xs20 got the nod. Ive been considering that or the a6700 so that's good to see. Also im surprised the Nikon Zf didnt get any love. Seems like the next x100v to me

[@mikedfurman]

Not me! And not most Nikon folks lol. They did love the Z9 I’ll give them that though. Chris is a well known “Sony Shill” 😂😂

[@akyerit]

@@mikedfurman ya but to be fair the same can be said for the x100v. It didn't really hit its stride until several years after it actual release

[@mikedfurman]

@@akyerit yeah. And I’m only kidding, Chris is great and he calls himself a “Sony shill” as a joke.

[@MehdiMahjoubi]

Here you are ! i was wondering if there will be a christmas show this year, and i got served :) Thank you mates !

[@highdough2712]

I just bought the 20-70mm lens, so it makes me happy to hear it’s #1 for the year.

[@briantallman244]

Always one of the highlights of the year. And something I actually look forward to. Thank you again. And yes, I am drinking too. 🍺

[@mixtape5143]

Brilliant as always!

[@skylark_media]

Another one down!, far out! lots of laughs. Thanks guys :)

[@67davejb]

always look forward to this end of year show

[@nikosvault]

25:56 that time of year indeed.

[@VladiDusil]

Yes, the boys are back with their end-of-year drunken shenanigans. Thank you for yet another (I'm sure) highly entertaining vid. P.S. The Cube movies are Canadian? No shit! Loved that scifi series.

[@YouSnoozeYouNooze]

Happy Anniversary !!!

[@MirceaPrunaru]

I loved every minute of it!.

[@SailingVesselPrism]

I love that you guys still get properly ripped.

[@Photobuffeddy1314]

keep that grind chris nickles .. Sick

[@Photobuffeddy1314]

peta-Files lol 😆

[@artmaltman]

Thank you for the chapter markings! I wish everyone did this.

[@delpierro0815]

Great to see this tradition got a new home ;).

[@benjhaisch]

best video of the year

[@whatremains4307]

I have the Audiio life time license and I love it!

[@rmgibbs1861]

Enjoyed!! Best!

[@AF_Gulfstream]

And...cut!! I laughed so hard at this.

[@garykinard7553]

Hard to believe It's been ten years... Loved this one..

[@Rak500]

The slow but steady decay is most excellent. I've enjoyed every part of this.

[@mikedfurman]

So happy to see this year end tradition continue!

[@margaritorios4983]

This is so great! Why can’t we get more content like this

[@MrAlexander1955]

My dream, as a 68 year old boy, would have been to be there with you, right behind the camera, but to experience those moments of joy, and little alcohol with you, but I live on a small island very far from you. But I'm sure that one day we will meet. I follow you from Dp.Review, now you are on this magnificent channel, and I will always follow you. Warm greetings from the island of Capri

[@niccollsvideo]

I’d happily do the next best worst video on Capri!!!

[@billlyl3725]

Best opening ever

[@RobertC2001]

The Video I‘ve been waiting for all year long 🎉

[@DanniPortillo]

Guys you are the best thank you for another funny year

[@andrewsaraceni]

The lens swigs. 😂 Entertaining as always!

[@NotAnotherChannel_Channel]

You guys were right at that drunk line between “I love you” and a fistfight.

[@aidanwilliams9452]

With the R100 Canon really should've designed it more as a replacement for the M6, though a bit bigger with the mount diameter. Something like that paired with the RF 28mm would be a fantastic travel combo

[@yao4738]

M6 is much better than this crap. The loss of direction at Canon is why I switched to Sony now.

[@fotografalexandernikolis]

It's absolutely mindboggling that Canon has such a large market share. The most expensive of any system when accounting for performance, the only system blocking 3rd party lenses, and much more dumb stuff. I hope Nikon can regain some of the market share they deserve.

[@ssady5405]

28:00 Chris took the wrong cup to drink

[@gvz1538]

Thank you for the wonderful video (very fun) and stills / video insights!!

[@JayRodas]

Ah yes, it's that time of year once again!

[@NotAnotherChannel_Channel]

My favorite time of the year! Wish I was in the audience chugging a few IPAs with you.

[@mrdogfight1]

I paused my big bang theory marathon to watch this yearly tradition. Lets go!!!!

[@DGJTvlogs]

Hearing "burn in hell simian" nearly dropped me into a coma lmao

[@majornova8357]

thx guys, this was so good, very funny.

[@grahamsherman]

haha amazing!! what an honour to have you beauties hanging out in the tool shed for the day! great vid as always gents!!!

[@PetaPixel]

Thanks again! You and your staff were incredibly tolerant of our antics!

[@LukeAntunes]

Super Monkey Ball for the Gamecube was peak gaming

[@ryanplummer9130]

AWESOME!

[@frikon8580]

i love this, great video guys.

[@coachsayf]

Drunk Chris might just be the best thing ever

[@niccollsvideo]

I am. Thanks you for noticing. I try my best.

[@coachsayf]

@@niccollsvideo 😂

[@mozmozbooks8925]

Love this ! Great show .

[@SlavGuns]

L mount wins! Great calls on S5

[@BoBandits]

The real winner is the Audience! Who get to keep you two going!

[@mark_midmark]

Great film questions and great answers!!! Especially Jordan for the Before Trilogy 🔥

[@ThePhotographerGuy]

Love it. Can't wait for next year's episode😂

[@VojoMojo]

25:20 “does your company also make photocopiers?” LOL Chris

[@WillmaticNYC]

Dear PetaPixel! Please make videos for 2024. You got two guys who are amazing talent, and are instrumental in the photography industry. Let them create whatever they want! Thank you.

[@laika25]

Congrats boys!

[@OttoVonRaz]

I look forward to this every year! Seeing Chris and Jordan piss drunk is awesome.

[@zacharystudio]

absolutely incredible.