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Subject: [Leica] URL: The Most Popular Cameras and Settings for Reuters¹ 2012 Photos of the Year
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 14:49:53 -0400

I'm I'm looking it up and reading this crazy thing about Rueters giving
their photographers Canon cameras but the stringers use their own which
could be other brands. Really I had no deal you worked for a place and they
gave you cameras. Except special remote controll setups for the Olympics.


On 7/24/13 9:12 AM, "Jefffery Smith" <jsmith342 at gmail.com> wrote:

> The discussion below the article points out that Reuters is a "Canon" 
> agency,
> so everyone uses Canon. The other non-Canon shots are perhaps those taken 
> when
> "off duty". Especially the one taken with the Sony P&S (even though it is a
> decent shot).
> 
> Jeffery
> 
> 
> On Jul 23, 2013, at 10:39 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
> 
>> For me its "Now there's a set of highly suspect statistics!"
>> 
>> 
>> On 7/22/13 12:39 PM, "Herbert Kanner" <kanner at acm.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> My reaction to those pie-charts is: "Now there's a set of useless
>>> statistics!"
>>> 
>>> Herbert Kanner
>>> kanner at acm.org
>>> 650-326-8204
>>> 
>>> Question authority and the authorities will question you.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Jul 22, 2013, at 3:33 AM, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Interesting breakdown of 2012 Reuters 2012 photos of the year:
>>>> 
>>>> Canon beat Nikon by a large number
>>>> Given most are likely to be zooms then wide open (f2.8) is most common
>>>> Camera base ASA is most common
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> "A single photograph captured using the most popular equipment and 
>>>> settings
>>>> (for Reuters? top 95 photos of 2012) would be shot using a Canon 1D 
>>>> Mark IV
>>>> with a 16-35mm lens attached, set at 1/320s, f/2.8, and ISO 200."
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> http://petapixel.com/2012/12/02/the-most-popular-cameras-and-settings-for-r
>>>> eu
>>>> ters-best-photos-of-the-year-2012/#more-91454
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> john
>>>> 
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Replies: Reply from sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter) ([Leica] URL: The Most Popular Cameras and Settings for Reuters¹ 2012 Photos of the Year)
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