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Subject: [Leica] URL: The Most Popular Cameras and Settings for Reuters¹ 2012 Photos of the Year
From: jsmith342 at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 08:12:18 -0500
References: <CE14C4C9.DECC%mark@rabinergroup.com>

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-reu
>>> ters-best-photos-of-the-year-2012/#more-91454
>>> 
>>> 
>>> john
>>> 
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