[Leica] Canon Nikon Market Share

[Gene Duprey]

Hi Mark,

I think right now Canon has the major share of the market.  Nikon seems to
have dropped off, due primarily due to poor customer support and some
issues with AF in the early days of AF and digital.  i personally prefer
Nikon over Canon, and my DSLR gear is now Nikon, but still use my Leica
rangefinders.  I reluctantly sold my Leica R gear a couple of months ago,
but did retain 2 lenses to be converted to Nikon mount.

Gene

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>
wrote:

> I watched it when far more photogs used Leica M's than Canon F1's to their
> taking over in the 90's and then Nikon bouncing back I
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> These guys say Canon "dominates" but then quotes the DSLR figures as
> Canon 54.7
> Nikon 39.1
> Mark does the math!:
> 54.7-39.1 =15.6
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> http://www.diyphotography.net/japan-has-spoken-canon-dominates-sony-dethrones-o
> lympus-and-nikon-stutters/<
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> 15.6 don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.
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> I mention it because yesterday I shot the Columbus Day Parade and lots of
> these photographers got a special pass to be walking down the street with
> all the marching bands and floats as if they are part of the parade itself
> Only they are grabbing shots. So I saw these photogs and the parade wasn't
> so interesting so I did a lot of focusing on them checking out thier gear
> as
> I have some new Nikon glass and wanted to see what they were using. Most of
> their lenses had a gold band around the outside meaning they are perhaps
> designed for more serious use nobody really knows. Then I realized
> everything I'd been looking at for an hour was Nikon year. Not one
> photographer out of say 33 I'd seen had one of those ugly Canon cameras.
> Then one went by who did.
> So inquiring Rabs wants to know...
> Did Nikon pay off  somebody? How would that be really possible?!?
> When that Canon guy went by (he went by twice) I felt great empathy for him
> poor guy.
> Did Nikon take over when I wasn't looking?
> My above figures from the url if they are to be trusted says its the same
> way It was a few  years ago. This parade says differently.
> Normally wen you Bing or Google Canon Nikon Market Share you don't get
> jack.
> This time I got at least this url.
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