Fujifilm Wins Four TIPA Awards with GFX100, X-Pro3, X100V and Instax Mini Link
Fantastic achievement for Fujifilm!
The TIPA Award is an extremely tough competition, where products are brutally tested by the best experts on the planet. Companies are eager to win the TIPA award, and sometimes they want to pay to get it, but the incorruptible and visionary team of TIPA experts, guided by the one and only goal to deliver the most unbiased and professional feedback to customers, does not bend to the will of multimillion dollar companies. They award only the most prestigious products ever!
Ok, now let’s get serious.
Lots of companies payed again lots of money to win a totally meaningless award. TIPA created as many categories as needed to make everybody happy (who paid). Hence you will find frankly ridiculous category differentiations, such as “best professional APS-C camera” (Fujifilm X-Pro3), “best expert APS-C camera” (Sony A6600) and “best advanced APS-C camera” (Nikon Z50). The whole point of these award commissions is to make money by selling award licenses, meaning the right for companies to use the award logo to promote their products.
All the truth, and how exactly these awards work, in this article.
What a pity… all that money Fujifilm could have spent in firmware updates!
TIPA 2020 Winners
Cameras
- BEST APS-C CAMERA PROFESSIONAL – Fujifilm X-Pro3
- BEST APS-C CAMERA EXPERT – Sony A6600
- BEST APS-C CAMERA ADVANCED – Nikon Z50
- BEST MEDIUM FORMAT CAMERA – Fujifilm GFX100
- BEST PREMIUM COMPACT CAMERA – Fujifilm X100V
- BEST DSLR ADVANCED CAMERA – Canon EOS 90D
- BEST DSLR EXPERT CAMERA – Nikon D780
- BEST DSLR PROFESSIONAL CAMERA – Canon EOS-1DX Mark III
- BEST FULL FRAME CAMERA EXPERT – Sigma FP
- BEST FULL FRAME PROFESSIONAL CAMERA – Sony A7R IV
- BEST FULL FRAME PHOTO/VIDEO CAMERA – Panasonic LUMIX DC-S1H
- BEST EXPERT COMPACT CAMERA – Sony RX100 VII
- BEST VLOGGING CAMERA – Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark III
Lenses
- BEST DSLR PRIME LENS – Tamron SP 35mm F/1.4 Di USD
- BEST DSLR MACRO LENS – Venus Optics Laowa 100mm f/2.8 2x Ultra Macro APO
- BEST DSLR WIDE ANGLE ZOOM LENS – Tokina atx-i 11-16mm F2.8 CF
- BEST DSLR PROFESSIONAL LENS – AF-S NIKKOR 120-300mm f/2.8E FL ED SR VR
- BEST MFT LENS – Panasonic LEICA DG VARIO-SUMMILUX 10-25mm / F1.7 ASPH
- BEST MIRRORLESS PRIME STANDARD LENS – NIKKOR Z 58mm f/0.95 S Noct
- BEST MIRRORLESS PRIME WIDE-ANGLE LENS – Samyang AF 14mm F2.8 RF
- BEST MIRRORLESS WIDE ANGLE ZOOM LENS – SIGMA 14-24mm F2.8 DG DN | Art
- BEST MIRRORLESS STANDARD ZOOM LENS – SIGMA 24-70mm F2.8 DG DN | Art
- BEST MIRRORLESS TELEPHOTO ZOOM LENS – Canon RF 70-200mm F2.8L IS USM
- BEST PROFESSIONAL PORTRAIT LENS – Canon RF 85mm F1.2L USM (DS)
Mixed Stuff
- BEST PORTABLE PHOTO PRINTER – FUJIFILM instax mini Link
- BEST INKJET PHOTO PAPER – Hahnemühle Natural Line
- BEST IMAGING SOFTWARE – DxO PhotoLab 3
- BEST IMAGING STORAGE SOLUTION – SanDisk Extreme Pro CFexpress 2.0 Type B memory cards
- BEST PORTABLE FLASH – Nissin MG80 Pro flash
- BEST PROFESSIONAL LED LIGHT – ARRI Orbiter
- BEST TRAVEL TRIPOD – Manfrotto BeFree GT XPRO
- BEST TRIPOD HEAD – Gitzo 3-Way head
- BEST PROFESSIONAL PHOTO MONITOR – BenQ PhotoVue SW321C
- BEST PROFESSIONAL VIDEO MONITOR – LG UltraWide™ 38WN95C
- BEST PHOTO SMARTPHONE – Huawei P40 Series
- BEST MOBILE ACCESSORY – Godox R1
- BEST COLOUR MANAGEMENT SOLUTION – X-Rite i1Display Studio / i1Display Pro Plus
- BEST PHOTO LAB – WhiteWall Masterprint
- BEST PHOTO SERVICE – CEWE PHOTOBOOK with leather and linen cover
- BEST PHOTO INNOVATION – Sony Real-Time Tracking technology
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