In Los Angeles, tourists carried Canons at least 4x more than Nikons.

In tourist spots I'm always checking out the DSLRs the tourists carry. Normally there is a pretty even distribution of Canon and Nikon, but in LA this week (Santa Monica, specifically), I saw at least 4 times more Canon shooters. Strange.

Is that where Kennedy was hot, hmm?

They were visiting California. That should tell you something

At the four North Orange County parks I visit weekly, it is easily 4 to 1 Canon over Nikon. Last week there were 6 of us at Mile Square Park trying to find some late lazuli buntings and only one of us had a Nikon.

Doesn't matter where I go I always see a ton more Canon's than I do Nikon's.

I see much more smart phone shooters.

Canon currently outsells Nikon, and has, for a number of years. Part of it, I think a large part of it, goes back to around 1990 when auto-focus technology burst on the scene and, simply put, Canon had the better, faster, more powerful auto-focus technology. A lot of professional sports photographers at that time, dumped their, now-slower Nikon kit for faster focusing Canon kit. Nikon caught up at some point but in this race, but not before, droves of pro's had made the big switch to Canon. With no compelling reason to switch back to Nikon the sidelines have been packed with white lenses and that's pretty powerful advertising.

Another thing I've noticed is Nikon color versus Canon color. Nikon cameras tend to run on the cool side, meaning shots from Nikons tend to be a little too blue. Canon's, on the other hand, seem to run a little on the warm side with a little too much red/orange. Given a choice, and all other things being equal, people prefer to warmer colors. My Nikon's shoot so cool part of my normal post processing routine is to check, and reduce if necessary (which is needed far more often than not) the blue mid-tones by about 5 points (using a Levels Adjustment Layer). Check it yourself and see if I'm not right about this... The cool tones are subtle, but they're there.
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Canon dominates the market its as simple as that.

I've noticed when i watch sports on tv there are mostly Canon shooters. And it makes me wonder what the deal is because there has to be a reason for it. Makes a little sense what you say Paul but also makes me wonder if the high fps of some of the Canons along with that "L" glass is a factor too.

I started with Nikon in the 70's. I'm too far in to change now and if I did, it would be to a different format.

I was drawn to Nikon! I never had much interest in Canon except to what the Canon version of the D700 might be like! Lol
But I'm stuck on the Nikon brand, until or unless they ruin it somehow!

It's ok, because with that ratio of bodies, it evens out!! Nikon shooters are typically at least four-times the photographers that Canon wielders are!!!!

WM

They must think Tv stands for Tourist Visiting.

Horoscope Fish said:

Canon currently outsells Nikon, and has, for a number of years. Part of it, I think a large part of it, goes back to around 1990 when auto-focus technology burst on the scene and, simply put, Canon had the better, faster, more powerful auto-focus technology. A lot of professional sports photographers at that time, dumped their, now-slower Nikon kit for faster focusing Canon kit. Nikon caught up at some point but in this race, but not before, droves of pro's had made the big switch to Canon. With no compelling reason to switch back to Nikon the sidelines have been packed with white lenses and that's pretty powerful advertising.

Another thing I've noticed is Nikon color versus Canon color. Nikon cameras tend to run on the cool side, meaning shots from Nikons tend to be a little too blue. Canon's, on the other hand, seem to run a little on the warm side with a little too much red/orange. Given a choice, and all other things being equal, people prefer to warmer colors. My Nikon's shoot so cool part of my normal post processing routine is to check, and reduce if necessary (which is needed far more often than not) the blue mid-tones by about 5 points (using a Levels Adjustment Layer). Check it yourself and see if I'm not right about this... The cool tones are subtle, but they're there.
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That's interesting. All of my Nikon's except for the D300 all ran/run on the warm side. Only the the D300 gave me colors that were pretty much spot on importing into LR. Not a big deal since I only shoot RAW anyway, but interesting nonetheless.

Here in Bordeaux it is mainly "bridge" cameras tourists have especially Fuiji. apart from that Nikon seems to rule. Nikon have advertised heavily in Europe and shops seem to push any advantage the Nikon has over the Canon equivalent.

wev said:

At the four North Orange County parks I visit weekly, it is easily 4 to 1 Canon over Nikon. Last week there were 6 of us at Mile Square Park trying to find some late lazuli buntings and only one of us had a Nikon.

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Who had the Nikon

I don't much worry about who shoots what brand really. Last week at the gardens, I spotted a fellow with a ring flash setup on his lens. I walked over to him to ask him how he liked that setup. He was shooting a Canon, but neither one of us actually mentioned nor started talking Nikon vs Canon silliness. We just talked about shooting stuff and about technique, and how much fun we were having.

Then our wives came back from the bathroom and ruined everything.

montignac said:

Here in Bordeaux it is mainly "bridge" cameras tourists have especially Fuiji. apart from that Nikon seems to rule. Nikon have advertised heavily in Europe and shops seem to push any advantage the Nikon has over the Canon equivalent.

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Funny, because I did talk to a few Nikon shooters at the Getty Museum, and they were both French!

Yes Blade it is as I said, apart from the Bridge cameras Nikon seem the most popular. I must say that the Americans who arrive on the cruise ships seem to favour the bridge cameras. Perhaps as they are lighter and smaller they are easier to travel with. In our club it is 70% nikon 30% canon.

We went to a wedding yesterday, and the female pro who was hired was shooting Canon.