interesting little chart, will please the canon fanboys

I'm not sure the data is representative of photography as a whole because certain types of shots usually get the popular images places (I'm guessing it's from Flickr data).

Interesting to see the Nikon cameras not feature well. :D

I'm surprised the 16-35 is so well used.

F-stop chart proves there are loads of small DOF and bokeh lovers out there. :D

The ISO chart is interesting because despite the monster ISO's new cameras (including my own) can go up to most including myself don't usually go out of the below 3200 rage. Almost all modern camera are good up to this point.
 
If you look up the actual pictures, they could have been taking with any equipment really. Usual foreign press shots, some gruesome, some amazing, some just your typical news shots. Most of them taking during the day, so no need for high ISO. This just tells us that the press use Canon more, no surprise. You always see them waving those white lenses about.
 
Is there a link to the actual photos somewhere then?
 
Reuters pool kit is all canon... That's why... People are reading a lot more into this than they should.
 
Jayst84 said:
This [url="http://www.petapixel.com/2012/12/02/the-most-popular-cameras-and-settings-for-reuters-best-photos-of-the-year-2012/]Petapixel article[/url] has links to all the original photographs and chart sources (fanboys on Reddit). You can read the full names of cameras on their version of the charts as well.

Still has ISO 160 on twice though. ;)
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The link seems to be broken James.
 
Well clearly it is not a representative set of numbers. If it was then Nikon would be out of business, along with everyone else, due to the scale of Canon ownership.
 
Forget who shot what - The images are amazing!
 
The images also all appear to be of landscape orientation!

I can almost understand why the fanboys seized on the opportunity to promote the illusion of total Canon domination in a Canon kit pool, but I think I'd personally choose to disassociate myself from this style of cherry-picked data.

More Slytherin than Gryffindor, if yanno what I mean. ;)
 
ernesto said:
Well clearly it is not a representative set of numbers. If it was then Nikon would be out of business, along with everyone else, due to the scale of Canon ownership.
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Well no. It's the numbers from a random selection of photos, shot partly as Dave says, with pool kit.

itsdavedotnet said:
given the amount of 90mms... do canons wrongly report 85s in exif or something?
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There only seems to be one that actually says 90mm in the EXIF in the gallery, so I'm guessing the rest are from 70-200s set to 90mm, that the bloke who made the chart has mistakenly put down as primes.

My 85L reports as 85mm on my 1D and 5D. I suppose they aren't really that common in journos' kit bags. It's an extra hassle when you could have a 70-200 and a fast 50.
 
SimonH said:
The images also all appear to be of landscape orientation!

I can almost understand why the fanboys seized on the opportunity to promote the illusion of total Canon domination in a Canon kit pool, but I think I'd personally choose to disassociate myself from this style of cherry-picked data.

More Slytherin than Gryffindor, if yanno what I mean. ;)
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Might i add, im in the olympus stable myself so am totally impartial to the fanboy/hater thing.
I just thought it was an interesting slant on camera data.
 
interesting but I don't see why it would please a canon-fanboy (i'm one)
I feel that canon's are pretty cost effective but for example
or sponsorship as above
some press organisations stick one one system in the same way I'll buy canon kit for my missus to use.
it just makes sense to stick to a system
to a pro, surely kit is kit if it's of sufficient quality
if reuters are 100% canon then this shows that in spite of that some people in the group insist on going nikon.
(or sony!)
 
DizMatt said:
interesting but I don't see why it would please a canon-fanboy (i'm one)
I feel that canon's are pretty cost effective but for example
or sponsorship as above
some press organisations stick one one system in the same way I'll buy canon kit for my missus to use.
it just makes sense to stick to a system
to a pro, surely kit is kit if it's of sufficient quality
if reuters are 100% canon then this shows that in spite of that some people in the group insist on going nikon.
(or sony!)
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Well being a fan of team canon and then seeing team canon at the top of a list you would perhaps have a little pride for your team lol
But then again why would anyone care. Only bloody cameras after all
 
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