The EISA Awards for 2012-2013 announced;16 products selected for awards in the Photo category

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The European Imaging and Sound Association came together to vote for the annual EISA awards. These awards are voted by EISA member magazines from across most of Western Europe, and a part of Eastern Europe as well. Canon and Sony took home most of the awards; three award each. Nikon and Olympus followed closely with two awards each. While Canon hogged the limelight with Canon’s EOS 5D Mark III Digital SLR being awarded the ‘European Advanced SLR Camera’, the Canon PowerShot G1 X honoured ‘European Compact Camera’, and the PIXMA PRO-1 bagging the ‘European Photo Printer’ of the year. On the other hand Nikon took the top honors for the ‘European Professional Camera’ for the Nikon D4, and ‘European Camera’ for the Nikon D800 camera. The Fujifilm X- Pro1 has been crowned ‘ European Professional Compact System Camera’, while the Olympus TOUGH TG-1 won the award for ‘European All Weather Camera’ and the Olympus OM-D won the ‘ European Compact System Camera’ award. The Samsung NX20 won ‘ European Advanced Compact System Camera’’ of the year award. In fact, the Sony Cyber- shot DSC- HX20V was chosen the ‘ European Travel Camera’ of the year, while the Sony RX100 wins the ‘ European Advanced Compact Camera’ and the Sony SLT- A57 bagged the ‘ European SLR Camera’ of the year award. The Tamron SP 24-70mm F/2.8 Di VC USD claimed the ‘European Lens’ award, and Panasonic’s LUMIX G X VARIO 12-35mm F2.8 ASPH POWER O.I.S. lens was voted the ‘European Compact System Lens’. The Sigma APO Macro 150mm F2.8 EX DG OS HSM was named the ‘European Macro Lens’ award of the year. Finally Adobe joined the winner with Lightroom 4 winning the ‘ European Photo Software of the Year’ award.