Not to intentionally be a dick, but Steve Hendrix, where are your facts now? Based on the poll thus far it very closely mimics my experience and contradicts your 'facts'. If this isn't a valid cross section of pros and non pros worldwide I don't know what is.. Obviously 'sensor sales' are moot and I do believe my experience out weighs that of a salesman in Atlanta. Additionally, my experience is not from one market. Before moving to NY I was in Seattle and I have exposure to files and photographers from around the world.
I did not respond to your post before because I agree it doesn't warrant debate. However, you are wrong, as I originally stated.
Nov 17 2007, 04:27 PM
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QUOTE(Anthony R @ Nov 17 2007, 06:16 PM)
Anthony:
We'll save the discussions of genitalia for another thread...
If one knows where to look, you will find plenty of facts.
The idea that a poll on an online forum where 126 or so members (out of a market estimated around 10,000) have indicated which back they own provides evidence of any market leadership is not founded in reality. And while New York is certainly a large and influential market, it's worldwide impact is only 5% of the complete market.
It's easy for photographers to look around and assume they are seeing the reality of an overall market by what is going on around them. But the fact is local market share can be very misleading. It is not necessarily based on who has the best product, particularly for ownership. How market share is attained is also very complex and misleading. It also assumes that no one else exists other than the photographers you know and see and who shoot for clients you know and see. It supposes that there are few photographers who are not known by you or your clients.
Market share itself is a very easily misunderstood statistic. A company can have leading market share, and declining sales numbers. Still be perceived as the leader, but yet be losing ground to it's competitors. Since market share is always a changing dynamic, sales growth is a more accurate indicator of who really has their ducks in a row.
So think for a minute...you can't know every photographer out there. And what we have seen in our sales is that many photographers work very much under the radar. In an assistant/rental-driven market, there is a lot more "chatter" of who is who. A significant portion of our sales are to photographers that not only aren't known to other photographers, sometimes they're not even known to us. We don't know where they come from or where they were hiding. But they exist, in large numbers throughout the world, and they quietly do their work. A more accurate indicator of market share is not who you may be aware of is using a particular product, but the purchasing numbers
from various suppliers...if you get my drift. And if you looked hard enough, you could probably find out that cold truth.
Steve Hendrix
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