Surprising history was made when one of the world’s leading camera company introduces one of the ugliest & cheapest full-frame DSLR. A company was purchased by its rival and again purchased by another rival to fight the other two biggest rivals to try to out sell one another. Today the Minolta-Konica-Sony’s latest incarnation—Sony A850 was introduced and won two of the world’s most prestigious contest in the world of DSLR, nominees are:

update: see below for the link real ugly looking cameras archive.

2009 nominees for the lowest-priced, Full-frame DSLR:

• Sony A900
• Canon EOS 5D (Mark I)
• Sony A850

2009 nominees for the world’s ugliest DSLR:

• Sony A850
• Sony A850
• Sony A850

…and the winner for 2009, cheapest & ugliest DSLR are:

Head over to imaging resource’s review

Also read:

The world’s ugliest cameras (The Online Photographer)
The world’s most beautiful cameras (Flickr discussion)