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Thanks for clarifying, still not an excuse for insulting other community members, even if that makes you feel better for whatever reason I can't understand

Goran h, you go to the basement to laugh?

And toni, if you already feel insulted (of what?) that's your problem. But no one said it makes one feel better, that's your strange conclusion.

TIPA members are basically print magazines and a TIPA award has not more (or less) value than DPR gold or whatever metal they use to signal their recommendations. It's something like "oh look! new! shiny! let's fill our forums with posts and generate some traffic, readers" and that's all about. They even gave one to the "L-mount alliance". Did you ever choose anything by checking out if it got a TIPA award? I mean, a D3500 as "best DSLR" - decide for yourself how true that can be - or how poor the competition was.