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The Art of Photography => The Coffee Corner => Topic started by: Slobodan Blagojevic on December 06, 2012, 10:00:37 pm

Title: Finally Some Good News For Canon!
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on December 06, 2012, 10:00:37 pm
Eat your heart out, Nikon! :)

About 80-85% of the best Reuters shots in 2012 were taken with Canon cameras, taking the first eight places in the ranking.

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Reuters has published its list of the best photographs taken in 2012, a massive collection of 95 powerful images showing different events that have occurred around the globe over the past year. In addition to large photos, descriptions by the photographers, and the official captions, each image is also accompanied by information about the equipment and settings that were used to capture it.

Photography enthusiast and Reddit user hallbuzz decided to copy, paste, sort, and tally all 95 EXIF data entries, and published a list with the ranking of cameras, lenses, and settings used.

Another user named mathiasa then took that list and turned the data into a series of charts. They offer an interesting glimpse at how some of the most powerful photographs recently captured by photojournalists were snapped:


Read more at http://www.petapixel.com/2012/12/02/the-most-popular-cameras-and-settings-for-reuters-best-photos-of-the-year-2012/#pJjZaWIVYMfO16bk.99 [/i]
Title: Re: Finally Some Good News For Canon!
Post by: Isaac on December 07, 2012, 10:40:53 am
I wonder how many of those could reasonably have been taken with a smartphone?
Title: Re: Finally Some Good News For Canon!
Post by: michael on December 07, 2012, 11:11:53 am
Part of me wants to write, "Boy, those Canon cameras sure are talented", but I won't.

Goodnight Gracy,

Michael
Title: Re: Finally Some Good News For Canon!
Post by: kers on December 07, 2012, 11:12:29 am
one of the reactions:

Sven Ratzel • 5 days ago −
I wonder that ANY Nikons are in this statistics. As far as I know all cameras that Reuters owns are Canons. So I guess the Nikon pictures are taken with the photographers own cams, not with the ones provided by the employer....
Title: Re: Finally Some Good News For Canon!
Post by: RFPhotography on December 07, 2012, 11:35:49 am
Keep in mind that Canon gives or heavily subsidises gear to news agencies and some newspapers.  I've never been able to find anything that says Nikon also engages in this practice.