Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/08/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Mark, I am a bit of a camera nerd and when I see the photographers they are quite close so I can see the camera and they rarely have a cream lens on. I like to spot whether they are using film or digital and whether they have gone for the more pixel or fast frame rate route. Very few are using film, most shoot jpeg rather than raw, I've asked. I shoot raw and have 1400 files to check out after my holiday in Iceland. I shot 12 rolls of 120 film also. It would have been more if my wife had been more patient..... This is my first holiday without a Leica that I can remember. Now I need a non working weekend to get on with it! BTW in the UK I don't remember Canon having a particular sales push at pros, but it is such a long time ago. The French magazines tend to be more pro Nikon than the English ones so one sees more Nikons in France than here. Frank On 24 Aug, 2005, at 14:03, Mark Rabiner wrote: > On 8/24/05 12:30 AM, "Frank Dernie" <Frank.Dernie@btinternet.com> > typed: > > >> Hi Mark, >> when I first started travelling to F1 Motor Races in 1976 all the >> pros used Nikon. The F2 was the big thing. There was only one agency, >> with two photographers, shooting Canon. One guy used Leicas. In >> Istanbul last weekend there were probably 300 accredited professional >> photographers covering the event and the vast majority have Canon. Of >> the pros I am friendly with, and that is a lot, only John Townsend >> still shoots Nikon. He has shown me his D2X. The rest are all Canon, >> film or digital. It started a long time ago - well before digital. >> Frank >> >> >> On 24 Aug, 2005, at 02:39, Mark Rabiner wrote: >> >> >>> Nikon still dominates the professional market. >>> >> >> > Maybe your right Frank all these guys know here is Portland Oregon. > > Although what Canon DOES have sewn up for sure are the very VISIBLE > photo > jobs. The media stuff. They pushed that successfully and the > conception or > perception the put across on TV ads quickly matched the reality. > Actually as I've said on the LUG a number of times if you see a sea > of white > long lenses it does not make an automatic Canon add. As there are > plenty of > such looking lenses made by Nikon. You'd have to check the logs on the > cameras first before you made any final conclusions. Make sure they > are not > of the peal off sort. But sure I'm sure on such things few are Nikon. > An article I mentioned on the LUG before I read and passed on to other > LugNuts says that although Canon has pushed the highly visible to > the public > media stuff the working commercial photo stiffs back in their > boring low > visibility studios shooting toaster ovens and wedding receptions > still have > not sold their Nikons. This was more than an opinion thing it was > apparently > based on some real statistics. Two years ago though. > > But this new Canon body if Nikon does not respond in say 10 days is > going to > be a blow to the mindsets of Nikon owners. > Three grand 12 megapixels full frame is that it? > Nikons going to need all the aces they've got up their sleeves laid > on the > table NOW. > I'd assume they have one or two. ... That they were planning on > releasing in > the months to seasons to come. They'll have to shorten that game > plan to > "days" to come. Hours. > > > Mark Rabiner > Photography > Portland Oregon > http://rabinergroup.com/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >