What that actually means is that the a99 is the fifth best overall camera ever tested by DXO. Most of the "points counted off" were for the "sports" calculation which measure high ISO capability. It still handily beats anything from Canon and has one of the three highest dynamic ranges of any camera at the business end of the ISO scale. More to a camera than its DXO sensor score but nice to know that Sony did very well. I already knew the camera was good, I shot with it all last week...