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Poll: What camera type/brand do you use?

What camera type/brand do you primarily use?

  • Total voters
    232
I tend to only use my Canon DSLR now.

Sad really that my lovely Fujifilm GA645zi is sitting no longer used in it's bag. I do intend on using it again soon.
 
For years I bought only Olympus digital cameras. Last month I jumped ship and bought a Fujifilm S700. I really like it. It takes amazing pictures, the 10x optical zoom is great and I like being able to zoom while shooting video. The only downside the S700 has is slightly above normal purple fringing on high contrast shots.
 
Interesting that we have more medium/large format users than 35mm users. This reflects my opinion that if you are going to shoot film it may as will be medium or large format.

But I'm asuming the medium/large format users are all shooting film
 
I currently have both a small Canon point and shoot (the 850 IS, I think) and a Canon G9. I use the G9 more often. Oh, and an iPhone if I don't have either with me. ;)

My wife still has her Canon Rebel DSLR from a few years ago. We might upgrade to the new Rebel later this year.
 
No surprises thus far .. as of 86 votes, Canon & Nikon DSLR's far away the most common - and tied for number of users.

What is more interesting - less than 10% P&S cameras represented. Browsing the posts, one might have guessed that to be higher. Time will tell.
 
Yeah, I too expected that we would have more users shooting (primarily) with P&S cameras. I assumed it would be similar to the vast number of people who use iPhoto as their primary editing/management software.

Pentax is also a bit higher than I expected -- I assumed that Sony DSLRs would come in third behind Nikon/Canon.

No poll is valid (to me) until there are over 100 data points, but we're getting there!
 
Grimace said:
No poll is valid (to me) until there are over 100 data points, but we're getting there!
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I thought the magic number for self-sampled selections was 350? Still, the numbers are pretty much trending near market share in the dSLR category, given what should amount to the margin of error.
 
Grimace said:
No poll is valid (to me) until there are over 100 data points, but we're getting there!
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You're a statistician? - or so I inferred from some earlier post. Apologies if I mis-understood.
In any event - isn't a poll like this 'invalid' regardless of numbers of respondents - simply because it is an "opt in" poll, rather than a direct poll of some representative sample of a given population?

Regardless - it does provide some insight into the users here on MR/Digital Photography. Speaking only for this relative newcomer - kudos to you for running the poll.
 
AxisOfBeagles said:
You're a statistician? - or so I inferred from some earlier post. Apologies if I mis-understood.
In any event - isn't a poll like this 'invalid' regardless of numbers of respondents - simply because it is an "opt in" poll, rather than a direct poll of some representative sample of a given population?

Regardless - it does provide some insight into the users here on MR/Digital Photography. Speaking only for this relative newcomer - kudos to you for running the poll.
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The methodology is invalid for so many reasons...I won't even go there! :p

Opt-in isn't too much of an issue, assuming that the same MR readers who frequent the photography forum also see the poll: most (but not all) people who post in this forum are also ones who will submit poll responses -- so the opt-in isn't too damaging. In my estimate, there are about 130-160 regular readers of the Photography forum.

Overall the data are pretty consistent so we'll see how it stacks up if it goes over 150 polls responses.
 
Canon SD630
Its a point and shoot but it works well for me.
 

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I have a Nikon D80 as well as a Nikon N75 with badass 64 ISO Slide Film lately.
 
Have to say Im a Nikon fan,

Nikon D80

17-55mm f/2.8
50mm f/1.4 prime
70-300 f/4.5-5.6

Very tempted to get a D300, probably at Christmas though.
 
Canon 40D (dslr) (2008)
Pentax MZ-50 (slr) (1998)
Fuji Finepix s600 (p&s) (2002)

nice all around coverage. Bought a Sandisk Ultra II 2gb card to use in the Fuji as it can act as a video camera. Have the 2GB Extreme III card for the 40D though.
 
canon powershot pro 1 and a tiny casio. Truth be told, I use the casio a lot more often than the canon. It's just too annoying to lug around everywhere I go.
 
tony-in-japan said:
Was a Canon user but ‘switched’ to Olympus. Have been very happy so far. :)
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That's interesting.

I am a Canon user however, before I had a Canon EOS10D DSLR I used an Olympus E10 & E20. They were fine cameras as I recall, did real well with them. However when Canon came out with at that time affordable DSLR's I bought a Digital Rebel, and returned it the next day in exchange got the 10D.

Since then I have acquired a 30D and now a 5D.

My children now share in using the old 10D.

ChrisA said:
Interesting that we have more medium/large format users than 35mm users. This reflects my opinion that if you are going to shoot film it may as will be medium or large format.

But I'm asuming the medium/large format users are all shooting film
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Interestingly enough, I am in the market ... actually saving up to buy a Black & White digital back for a medium format camera.

It's a big ticket item, but I think the results will be well worth the cost.

Looking back at all my film work, I realize my heart is in B&W photography.
 
termina3 said:
…$3000 is nothing in the digital medium format world. Try $30,000.
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It depends I think. I could be extremely happy with $3,000 worth in camera equipment.:p

But maybe $5,000 would be the sweet spot. (Nikon D300, 70-200 f/2.8, 17-55 f/2.8 and 105 f/2.8 Micro). Mmmm....well, maybe $6,000 :D adding a flash, bag, etc.
The only disadvantage being that this kit would be extremely heavy.


As for me, I have a Nikon, and enjoying every minute of it.:)
 
Roco said:
It depends I think. I could be extremely happy with $3,000 worth in camera equipment.
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The problem I have is that there's always something else. An additional lens, strobe, light stand, whatever. There's always more.
 
Roco said:
It depends I think. I could be extremely happy with $3,000 worth in camera equipment.:p

But maybe $5,000 would be the sweet spot. (Nikon D300, 70-200 f/2.8, 17-55 f/2.8 and 105 f/2.8 Micro). Mmmm....well, maybe $6,000 :D adding a flash, bag, etc.
The only disadvantage being that this kit would be extremely heavy.


As for me, I have a Nikon, and enjoying every minute of it.:)
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Thats not medium format :rolleyes:

Currently a cannon shooter. Oh, and I have a camera too.
 
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