Originally Posted by frisco
Bingo!
But Nikon has been getting there butt kicked by Canon for years.
Well,..... For starters, In Japan Canon has always been the most "Popular" camera brand since back in the Rangefinder days. Back in the 60's and 70's and even 80's Nikon was the "Cult" Pro camera for good reason. The Nikon F camera brought us pictures from War Times, The choice of most newspapers and magazines. Also Nikon was the Camera that went to the Moon along with Hasselblad. Through all those times Canon has always beat Nikon on Consumer camera sales. They basically catered to the consumer market and backed it up with way more Mainstream Advertising.
Canon always was way ahead of Nikon in the film point and shoot era, again with way more advertising and money going back into R&D
Now lets fast forward to the Digital Era...... Who was the first serious DSLR.... Nikon or Canon???? Neither..... Kodak was! Kodak would buy Nikon and Canon film bodies and rework them into $30,000.00 3 or 4 megapix(can't remember) DSLR's
Nikon actually had a brief jump on Canon in the pro line with the Nikon D1x series cameras. All the while Canon was still making more overall sales in the consumer market. Between Canons digital point and shoots and the affordable Canon DSLR Rebel series, Canon sales just blew up into it's own level.
Rewind a bit.... Through the years, Canon developed there "Super Telephotos" All those White lens you see at the ball games and events. There was even a point in time in the film days when the hot ticket was to send your Canon lens into Marty Forcher in NY to get it converted to Nikon mount.
Then there was the MegaPixel race.... This is where Canon just killed Nikon in the Pro Ranks. Don't get me wrong...... At this point I'm a guy with a couple of Nikon D1x's and 25 Nikkor lenes.
Film or Digital.... Film or Digital.... That was the Million Dollar question at the time. Ad agencies and picture editors wouldn't take 6 megapix DSLR images. As time went on the question from Ad Agencies was "What's the Native file size of the images at 300dpi" They wouldn't accept the files if the were smaller then the intended use.
Several years ago now Canon comes out with the 1Ds Mark ll a 16.7 megapix camera. Now we have a camera that shoots a native 300 dpi file that is almost 11"x17" double page spread. This camera was now accepted by Stock agencies, Ad agencies and just about everybody. Where is Nikon......Still in the 11-12 megapix size. Again I'm not the one saying megapixels are everything, because it's far from it. Nikon was following there own plan making fine cameras .......just at a slower rate. I don't know first hand, But some in the know say the Nikon makes better images. I'm just telling you what the industry was dictating.
So that said, I and thousands of others had to "Jump Ship" to the Canon band wagon. Do I care... Not really... I'm very happy with Canon and get way better corporate support from Canon than I ever did with Nikon. Our new Canon 1Ds Mark lll is a 22 megapix camera and it seems to be quite good.
So there you have it..... The bottom line is that Canon sells more and spends more money in advertising and R&D
That doesn't mean Nikon doesn't make great cameras.... Because they do. I love them both and have made a nice living for myself with both.
This is not intended to be fuel for a Nikon vs. Canon debate!
frisco
Bingo!
But Nikon has been getting there butt kicked by Canon for years.
Well,..... For starters, In Japan Canon has always been the most "Popular" camera brand since back in the Rangefinder days. Back in the 60's and 70's and even 80's Nikon was the "Cult" Pro camera for good reason. The Nikon F camera brought us pictures from War Times, The choice of most newspapers and magazines. Also Nikon was the Camera that went to the Moon along with Hasselblad. Through all those times Canon has always beat Nikon on Consumer camera sales. They basically catered to the consumer market and backed it up with way more Mainstream Advertising.
Canon always was way ahead of Nikon in the film point and shoot era, again with way more advertising and money going back into R&D
Now lets fast forward to the Digital Era...... Who was the first serious DSLR.... Nikon or Canon???? Neither..... Kodak was! Kodak would buy Nikon and Canon film bodies and rework them into $30,000.00 3 or 4 megapix(can't remember) DSLR's
Nikon actually had a brief jump on Canon in the pro line with the Nikon D1x series cameras. All the while Canon was still making more overall sales in the consumer market. Between Canons digital point and shoots and the affordable Canon DSLR Rebel series, Canon sales just blew up into it's own level.
Rewind a bit.... Through the years, Canon developed there "Super Telephotos" All those White lens you see at the ball games and events. There was even a point in time in the film days when the hot ticket was to send your Canon lens into Marty Forcher in NY to get it converted to Nikon mount.
Then there was the MegaPixel race.... This is where Canon just killed Nikon in the Pro Ranks. Don't get me wrong...... At this point I'm a guy with a couple of Nikon D1x's and 25 Nikkor lenes.
Film or Digital.... Film or Digital.... That was the Million Dollar question at the time. Ad agencies and picture editors wouldn't take 6 megapix DSLR images. As time went on the question from Ad Agencies was "What's the Native file size of the images at 300dpi" They wouldn't accept the files if the were smaller then the intended use.
Several years ago now Canon comes out with the 1Ds Mark ll a 16.7 megapix camera. Now we have a camera that shoots a native 300 dpi file that is almost 11"x17" double page spread. This camera was now accepted by Stock agencies, Ad agencies and just about everybody. Where is Nikon......Still in the 11-12 megapix size. Again I'm not the one saying megapixels are everything, because it's far from it. Nikon was following there own plan making fine cameras .......just at a slower rate. I don't know first hand, But some in the know say the Nikon makes better images. I'm just telling you what the industry was dictating.
So that said, I and thousands of others had to "Jump Ship" to the Canon band wagon. Do I care... Not really... I'm very happy with Canon and get way better corporate support from Canon than I ever did with Nikon. Our new Canon 1Ds Mark lll is a 22 megapix camera and it seems to be quite good.
So there you have it..... The bottom line is that Canon sells more and spends more money in advertising and R&D
That doesn't mean Nikon doesn't make great cameras.... Because they do. I love them both and have made a nice living for myself with both.
This is not intended to be fuel for a Nikon vs. Canon debate!
frisco
