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Subject: [Leica] Canon Introduces 2 new digital SLR's
From: jgovindaraj at eth.net (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Wed Aug 24 21:12:07 2005
References: <BF31F947.1A701%mark@rabinergroup.com>

Mark,
At least in India, as of now, Nikon is totally dominant and Canon is non 
existent - I have yet to see a wedding or event photographer shoot with 
one...they are the bread and butter pros, not the glamour boys who shoot 
cricket. Canon have, however, set up a subsidiary here  recently, so the 
future might be different.
Cheers
Jayanand Govindaraj
Chennai, India

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark@rabinergroup.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 10:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Canon Introduces 2 new digital SLR's


> On 8/24/05 8:04 AM, "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@comcast.net> typed:
>
>> There is an additional, very important reality in the 
>> Canon-Nikon-everyone
>> else race: Canon at this point produces by far the cleanest images at 
>> high
>> isos. Period. No one else is coming close. Canon isn't winning simply
>> because of advertising and PR, they're winning because they Canon's are
>> delivering the quality images.
>>
> I think as conserved as pros are and a large sector of serious amateurs
> about the necessity of using "the" camera. The camera which gives them the
> most credibility. Their image as well as the image their camera is
> producing:
> They are also concerned enough about the quality their camera is getting
> enough to NOT use stuff which was significantly better than something 
> else.
> The Nikon D2x as far as stock agencies go and in other uses is seen and 
> for
> good reason I'm sure as being competitive imagery wise to the Canon Full
> frame S. Hence people buying it, using it and continuing to stick with 
> their
> Nikon systems they've used for years.
> But its all USE. Sometimes you need much different image formats than 
> other
> times and its not always obvious which format and film vs. digital you 
> want
> to use for a given use.
>
> I met a second Oregonian photographer last week and he was shooting with 
> not
> a Nikon D2X but a Nikon D2H. 4 megapixel images. I'd already met another 
> one
> who did the same a few months ago and mentioned it on the LUG.
> It may easily be that all the Oregonian photographers use this camera and
> that 4 megapixels is all newspaper photojournalism needs. They don't need
> 12. And they don't need full frame.
>
> A guy who used to work at Camera World for years but is now doing well as 
> a
> commercial photographer I ran into at Pro photo last week.
> He's got the sides of all the busses plastered with the news teams of some
> TV station. Huge images. Shot 4 megapixels with not the d2x which he 
> didn't
> have yet at that point but the d2H!
> So apparently 4 megapixels made from that camera which uses an unusual not
> CMOS or other traditional capturing cells are good not just for 80 screen
> newspaper shots on newsprint. But mural sized stuff. They're more than one
> way to skin a cat.
> And its always or often what you don't think.
>
> Mark Rabiner
> Photography
> Portland Oregon
> http://rabinergroup.com/
>
>
>
>
>
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