Outside magazine’s annual Summer Buyers Guide is out and the Sony α7S II has won a Gear Of The Year award.

Michael Frank writes, “The α7S II has only 12.2 megapixels, but there’s a good reason for that. Packing fewer pixels onto the sensor lets each one be a little bigger and drink in more light, making the camera a low-light beast with a top expandable ISO of 409,600 (for comparison, many other high-end cameras top out at 50,000.”