What brand of cameras do photojournalists use the most? Canon or Nikon?

Question

The title says it all. I heard that Canons rule the sideline of sports, so I am wondering which brand photojournalists use the most? Canon or Nikon?

Here's another question just for kicks: What brand do landscape photographers use the most?

Answer 1

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A photographer newbie

Welcome to the world

It's a great debate that will continue forever

I use a Canon, great and lightweight.

Canon probably edges out Nikon by having the bang for the buck.

I've seen most landscape photographers use canons.

Answer 2

I think it's pretty close to 50 50.

Answer 3

Real professionals that make a living off their work and do it commercially. They are going to be using Mamiya,Hasselblad, and Nikons.  But you wedding photographers and that type of thing are going to use High end Nikons, Canons and whatever other ones fit there needs.  

Answer 4

Dont ask this....canon nikon? Im nikon dude. bmw mercedes? im bmw. Apple pc? Im apple dude ;) With the new D3 D300 D700 row, I would say, things WILL change on the sides of sports.

Yes do do get value for money if you go Canon, but you also do get value for money if you go nikon, except you have to pay more, ehm you get more ;)

Answer 5

The tide is turning.  As a sports photographer, I find my Nikon outnumbered on the sides of the field and at the ends of the court by the easily recognized white lenses of Canon at most events.  But, I'm beginning to see more Nikon DSLR's with each event I shoot.

Look at this photo from the recent Tour de France.

http://graphics.boston.com/universal/sit...

And this one from the Beijing Olympics, taken from a German webite.  Read the discussion in the accompanying article.:

http://luminous-landscape.com/whatsnew/

And this huge photo (scroll all the way across) from poolside, at the Beijing Summer Olympics.

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.a...

I think it's fair to say, that the advent of the Nikon D3 has brought Nikon back to the battle, and the upcoming D3x should make things even more interesting.

As for the landscape question, I'd suggest looking at the photocredits for National Geographic or various travel magazines.

Answer 6

I know of two landscape photographers that uses Canon Art Wolf, George Lepp. I sure there are more.

B. Moose Peterson, David Middleton, Frans Lanting, Jill Enfield, John Shaw, Pat O'Hara I'm sure there are more uses Nikon's  

Answer 7

Until recently, photojournalists - particularly sports photographers heavily favored Canon -  In part because Canon is a much bigger company and than Nikon and it was quicker to make the latest  improvements in Digital Camera.  But Recently, Nikon has come out with the D3, D300 and last month, the D700.  - The D3 and D700 are full frame Digital SLRs.  - All three of these cameras are leaders in the ability to take good pictures in low light.  The D3 is a solid professional camera -  It has been very popular with Sports photographers -  

Answer 8

It is pretty much even right now with sports photographers.

http://luminous-landscape.com/whatsnew/#...

Scroll down to August, 2008 - Sign of The Times

Also look at this picture

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ross_tt/275...

With the introduction of the D3 and D300, and the VR Super Teles, Nikon has gained much of its lost ground back. I believe Nikon also has a larger overall market share of DSLR sales now.

Answer 9

Yes, it's very close to 50/50 split.

Want to have some fun figuring it out?

Turn on the tv and tune to NBC when they broadcast Olympics.

Wait until nothing interesting happens, and editor will every now and then show you a long panoramic shot of the press area. You'll see rows of cameras all pointing in the same direction. Try to count those big white lenses and the big black ones (skip smaller ones, only count really big ones, 300-400mm and up, because the smaller ones are all black). The white lenses are usually Canons, the black ones are Nikons.

Good luck counting!

LEM.

P.S. This is a non-scientific method, because some canon lenses are black indeed, but very few photographers that shoot Olympics would use those, because white ones are Canon's signature high grade professional glass, so there should not be too many of these.