EISA winners

[Dr. Harout]

I think this should be of interest:

The European Imaging and Sound Association (EISA) just published their picks for the 2008-2009 Award Winners, including for the Photo category. The EISA’s choices:

* Camera: Sony Alpha A350
* Consumer Camera: Canon EOS 1000D
* Professional Camera: Nikon D3
* Compact Camera: Panasonic DMC-TZ5
* Ultra Compact Camera: Olympus µ 1030SW
* Super Zoom Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S100FS
* Advanced Camera: Olympus E-3
* Advanced Compact Camera: Casio Exilim Pro EX-F1
* Lens: Sony 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 G SSM
* Consumer Lens: Tamron AF 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3 XR Di VC LD Aspherical (IF) Macro
* Professional Lens: Nikon AF-S Nikkor 14-24mm and AF-S 24-70mm f/2.8 G ED
* Mini Photo Printer: Canon Selphy ES2
* Photo Printer: Epson Stylus Photo R2880
* Photo Storage Device: SanDisk SD-HC Plus Extreme, Ducati Edition
* Photo Software: Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0
* Professional Photo Software: Apple Aperture 2

[rogprov]

Well it's certainly nice to see a couple of Sony items in there ... but I do get the feeling it's sort of been shared around between the main players.

Maybe I'm just an old cynic

[David Kilpatrick]

Sony gained the unqualified awards -best camera, best lens. That says a lot.

David

[Greg Beetham]

Yes it does look like they shared the awards around a little, just about every brand got a mention except poor old Pentax I think, looks like Nikon is now the professional's brand of choice, if choosing from cameras released this year that is, I wonder how or what criteria they use, (just curious, I'm not suggesting that it was a bad choice in the slightest), is it overall sales, or peer reviews, or some sort of popular voting system?
I have too agree with their E6 award it is a very good program....except for the help file, sheesh, I don't have much luck doing a word search for some topic in that help file, the main things are ok, but just go off the beaten path a little and you might as well whistle dixie.
Greg