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Subject: [Leica] URL: The Most Popular Cameras and Settings for Reuters¹ 2012 Photos of the Year
From: sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 17:12:03 -0500
References: <86630808-5949-4A1F-8CF8-0FACFA8C17A4@gmail.com> <CE159A11.DF95%mark@rabinergroup.com>

The AP and UPI supplied cameras, as did  the Times-Picayune, the States
Item, and both Baton Rouge newspapers, when I was in the news shooting
game.

Of course, the television stations always supplied cameras; In New Orleans,
staff photographers also took our news cars home at night.


On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
wrote:

> 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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> >>
> >>
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-- 
Regards,

Sonny
http://sonc.com/look/
Natchitoches, Louisiana

USA


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