The year's best products

THE EXPERT Imaging and Sound Association (EISA) is a group of 55 special interest magazines and websites from 29 countries around the world, covering six subject areas: Hi-Fi, TV, photography, mobile, in-car and home theatre. Each member is renowned for its expertise and authority within its particular subject area, and for the rigour and integrity of its testing.

As one of the organisation’s founding members, AP is an integral part of EISA’s Photo Panel. We work closely alongside 16 other magazines from Europe, India and the USA, all of which are among the most respected in their home countries. Each June we meet to discuss, debate and vote for the best products of the previous year across a range of categories. An absolute prerequisite is that all of the winners must have been tested in depth by multiple panel members. Each country has its own tastes and preferences, but there is usually a strong consensus as to who the winners should be. In September, the winners are presented with their awards at a gala ceremony in Berlin.

One thing you’ll notice this year is that there are no longer any separate awards for DSLR and mirrorless systems. This simply reflects the current state of the market, and in particular the paucity of new DSLRs as mirrorless becomes increasingly dominant. Over the next few pages we reveal the very best new cameras and lenses you can buy, as we name the EISA Awards winners of 2019-2020.