{"id":135143,"date":"2020-02-23T18:18:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T18:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amateurphotographer.co.uk\/?p=135143"},"modified":"2020-02-23T19:44:35","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T19:44:35","slug":"ap-awards-2020-sony-a7r-iv-wins-product-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/latest\/photo-news\/ap-awards-2020-sony-a7r-iv-wins-product-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"AP Awards 2020: Sony A7R IV wins Product of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AP\u2019s annual awards took place on Friday night at the Bulgari Hotel Ballroom, in London\u2019s Knightsbridge. Senior representatives from all the major brands and retailers saw the Sony A7R IV scoop Product of the Year at the event, held in the venue\u2019s stunning ballroom, hosted by AP Editor Nigel Atherton and comedian Mark Dolan. Sony also scooped the Compact Camera of the Year award for its impressive RX100 VII.<\/p>\n<p>Other big winners included Fujifilm who took home three awards, including Enthusiast Camera of the Year for the X-T30 and Innovation of the Year for the GFX100. See below for the full list of award winners.<\/p>\n<p>MPB and Hireacamera.com were among the retail and service companies winning a Good Service Award for the first time, while Grays of Westminster retained its Platinum Award crown for receiving the most votes from its customers.<\/p>\n\t\t<div id=&quot;attachment_135110&quot;  class=\"c-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 617px\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-135110\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/AP_Awards_2020_4R2A9588Edits-597x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"597\" height=\"400\" \/>\t\t\t<p class=\"c-caption__text\">Amateur Photographer Editor Nigel Atherton hosting the AP Awards 2020<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<p>The newly crowned Amateur Photographer of the Year winner Caron Steele was the first to collect her award, which was presented by Sigma Imaging UK MD Paul Reynolds.<\/p>\n<p>AP\u2019s new Unsung Hero Award was won by Simon Wiffen, for his photographic portrait project in aid of Cystic Fibrosis, while Graeme Chesters was presented with the inaugural MPB Rising Star Bursary, worth \u00a35000, for his planned project to document climate change in Svalbard, one of the northernmost communities in the world.<\/p>\n<p>AP\u2019s Power of Photography Award was won by Photographers Against Wildlife Crime for their work in bringing photographers together to fight to bring to end the illegal trade in endangered wildlife products. The award was collected by Britta Jaschinski and ex AP Editor Keith Wilson, who received a standing ovation.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Stoddart, who this year celebrates 50 years as a photojournalist, was given the second standing ovation of the evening when he picked up the Exceptional Achievement Award.<\/p>\n<p>The final award of the evening was the Chris Cheesman Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Photographic Industry and was given to Jeremy Gilbert who retires as Nikon UK\u2019s Marketing manager after 33 years with the company, to rapturous applause \u2013 and a third standing ovation \u2013 from the audience.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.google.com\/share\/AF1QipOBEUqqwMUolMTWklaTkJ6jAIJA8HFnJXsQdMLNLX4lxx5yKQEAf--ZcFDvnovYVQ?key=NGdwRGR4b3NDOHJtMXRVemFUSHE3dnR4YktRNXBB\">See the full gallery of images from the AP Awards 2020 here<\/a><\/h3>\n\t\t<div id=&quot;attachment_135111&quot;  class=\"c-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 620px\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-135111\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/AP_Awards_2020_4R2A9592Edits-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/>\t\t\t<p class=\"c-caption__text\">Mark Dolan co-presented the AP Awards 2020<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\n<h2>List of Product Award Winners<\/h2>\n<h3>Accessory of the Year(x3)<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Datacolor SpyderX<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fujifilm Instax mini Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Vanguard VEO Select 49<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shortlisted: Billingham Hadley Pro 2020, Manfrotto BeFree GT XPRO Carbon, Rode Wireless GO, Vallerret Markhof Pro 2.0<\/p>\n\n<h3>Smartphone Camera of the Year<\/h3>\n<h4>Samsung Galaxy Note10+<\/h4>\n<p>Shortlisted: Apple iPhone 11 Pro, Google Pixel 4, Huawei P30 Pro<\/p>\n<h3><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>Compact Camera of the Year<\/h3>\n<h4>Sony RX100 VII<\/h4>\n<p>Shortlisted: Canon PowerShot G5 X Mark II, Panasonic Lumix FZ1000 II, Ricoh GR III<\/p>\n\n<h3>Consumer Camera of the Year<\/h3>\n<h4>Canon EOS 250D<\/h4>\n<p>Shortlisted: Nikon D3500<\/p>\n\n<h3>Enthusiast Camera of the Year<\/h3>\n<h4>Fujifilm X-T30<\/h4>\n<p>Shortlisted: Nikon Z 50, Panasonic Lumix G90<\/p>\n\n<h3>Premium Camera of the Year<\/h3>\n<h4>Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark III<\/h4>\n<p>Shortlisted: Canon EOS 90D, Sony Alpha 6600<\/p>\n\n<h3>Professional Camera of the Year<\/h3>\n<h4>Sony Alpha 7R IV<\/h4>\n<p>Shortlisted: Fujifilm GFX100, Panasonic Lumix S1R<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>Wideangle Prime Lens of the Year<\/h3>\n<h4>Sigma 28mm F1.4 DG HSM | Art<\/h4>\n<p>Shortlisted: Fujifilm XF 16mm F2.8 R WR, Sony FE 35mm F1.8<\/p>\n\n<h3>Standard Prime Lens of the Year<\/h3>\n<h4>Zeiss Batis 2\/40 CF<\/h4>\n<p>Shortlisted: Samyang AF 45mm F1.8 FE, Sigma 40mm F1.4 DG HSM Art<\/p>\n\n<h3>Telephoto Prime Lens of the Year<\/h3>\n<p>Sigma 56mm F1.4 DC DN | Contemporary<\/p>\n<p>Shortlisted: Nikon Nikkor Z 85mm F1.8 S, Sony FE 135mm F1.8 GM<\/p>\n\n<h3>Wideangle Zoom Lens of the Year<\/h3>\n<h3>Tamron 17-28mm F2.8 Di III RXD<\/h3>\n<p>Shortlisted: Nikon Nikkor Z 14-30mm F4 S, Tokina opera 16-28mm F2.8 FF<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>Standard Zoom Lens of the Year<\/h3>\n<h4>Nikon Nikkor Z 24-70mm f\/2.8 S<\/h4>\n<p>Shortlisted: Olympus 12-200mm f\/3.5-6.3<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>Telephoto Zoom Lens of the Year<\/h3>\n<h4>Canon RF 70-200mm F2.8L IS USM<\/h4>\n<p>Shortlisted: Sigma 70-200mm F2.8 DG OS HSM Sports<\/p>\n\n<h3>Innovation of the Year<\/h3>\n<h4>Fujifilm GFX100<\/h4>\n<p>Shortlisted: Epson FastFoto FF-680W, Nikon AF-S Nikkor 500mm f\/5.6E PF ED VR<\/p>\n\n<h3>Product of the Year<\/h3>\n<h4>Sony Alpha 7R IV<\/h4>\n\t\t<div id=&quot;attachment_135113&quot;  class=\"c-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 620px\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-135113 size-large\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/AP_Awards_2020_4R2A9602Edits-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/>\t\t\t<p class=\"c-caption__text\">AP Awards 2020<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\n<h2>Good Service Award winners<\/h2>\n<p>CameraWorld<\/p>\n<p>Cambrian Photo Video<\/p>\n<p>Clifton Cameras<\/p>\n<p>Ffordes Photographic<\/p>\n<p>Hireacamera<\/p>\n<p>London Camera Exchange<\/p>\n<p>MPB<\/p>\n<p>Mr Cad<\/p>\n<p>Park Cameras<\/p>\n<p>SRB Photographic<\/p>\n<p>Wex Photo Video<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><em>Platinum Award: <\/em>Grays of Westminster<\/p>\n\t\t<div id=&quot;attachment_135121&quot;  class=\"c-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 620px\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-135121\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/AP_Awards_2020_4R2A9629Edits-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/>\t\t\t<p class=\"c-caption__text\">Grays of Westminster win a Platinum Good Service Award<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<h2>Other Award winners<\/h2>\n\n<h3>MPB Rising Star Bursary<\/h3>\n<p>Graeme Chesters<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>Unsung Hero Award (in association with Ripe Insurance)<\/h3>\n<p>Simon Wiffen<\/p>\n\n<h3>Power of Photography Award<\/h3>\n<p>Photographers Against Wildlife Crime (Keith Wilson and Britta Jaschinski)<\/p>\n\n<h3>Exceptional Achievement in Photography<\/h3>\n<p>Tom Stoddart<\/p>\n\n<h3>Amateur Photographer of the Year (Sponsored by Sigma Imaging)<\/h3>\n<p>Caron Steele<\/p>\n\n<h3>Chris Cheeman Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Photographic Industry<\/h3>\n<p>Jeremy Gilbert, Marketing Manager, Nikon UK<\/p>\n\t\t<div id=&quot;attachment_135109&quot; 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