DPReview Reader's Choice Awards 2025: Product of the Year

Product of the Year 2025: the results

The final round of voting has closed, and it's time to reveal the winners of our 2025 Readers' Choice Awards! Beginning in December, DPReview readers picked their favorite cameras, zoom lenses and prime lenses released in 2025. The winners of the first round of voting were then pitted against each other for the title of Product of the Year. Take a look and see which products came out on top.

Second runner-up: Sony FE 50-150mm F2 GM

The Sony FE 50-150mm F2 GM won our Readers' Choice Award for Best Zoom Lens of 2025, so it's not surprising to see it land in one of the top three positions in the Product of the Year competition. It pulled in 13.8% of the vote total, just edging out the Canon RF 45mm F1.2 STM for the second runner-up position.

To be sure, the Sony FE 50-150mm F2 GM was one of the most interesting lenses of 2025, offering a combination of fast aperture, a versatile zoom range, and top-notch image quality that can deliver impressive levels of background separation. Even better, its relatively compact size makes it manageable to carry around. We have no doubt this will be one of Sony's most popular lenses for the foreseeable future.

First runner-up: Sony a7 V

The Sony a7 V secured the first runner-up position in our Readers' Choice Product of the Year vote, pulling in 19.5% of the votes cast. That's a solid performance for a camera announced so late in 2025 that it came within a couple of days of missing the deadline for this year's award voting.

We're not surprised it did so well, though. It significantly improves upon its predecessor, the a7 V, arriving with an updated 33MP "partially stacked" sensor that supports 14-bit readout even when shooting at bursts of 30fps. It also features the most up-to-date AF system in Sony's a7 series, pre-burst capture, and much improved video specs, including 4K/60p video derived from 7K capture. And even with its partially stacked sensor, it still manages to deliver impressive dynamic range. We expect this to be Sony's workhorse enthusiast camera for the next several years, and based on your votes, it looks like the a7 V delivers where it counts.

Winner: Nikon Z5II

And the winner of our 2025 Readers' Choice Product of the Year Award is the Nikon Z5II, marking Nikon's third consecutive win, following the Nikon Z8 in 2023 and theNikon Z6III in 2024. That's an impressive run by any measure. Clearly, Nikon is doing something right.

More notably, the Z5II made a clean sweep of all our awards this year. A few weeks ago, we named it the Best Enthusiast Camera of 2025 in our DPReview Annual Awards, as well as our DPReview Product of the Year for 2025. It also won Best Camera in our 2025 Readers' Choice awards, before you chose it as your Product of the Year.

Wow. Just wow.

However, the most impressive part might just be that the Z5II wasn't the most impressive camera introduced this year by any measure, except possibly one: value. It delivers excellent still and video quality, includes in-body image stabilization, Nikon's latest autofocus system, and the fantastic ergonomics we've come to expect from Nikon. And, as we said in an earlier write-up, it comes at a price that's low enough to make you wonder if there's a catch. (There isn't.) To sum up our own Nikon Z5II review, "Very few of us truly need anything more."