Reuters best pix of the year stats:

This is interesting, not sure how accurate it is but someone did an analysis of the Reuters Beast photos of 2012 WRT what camera, lenses, settings etc.

https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1A9U6JVLnh0cCeWzabq03buSY26MA0CvYYJ68WquT7YM

Found on CR

The Photostream appears to be here (but it is sort of tricky to get it ti work):

http://blogs.reuters.com/fullfocus/2012/11/30/best-photos-of-the-year-2012/#a=26

Mostly PJ stuff obviously, but interesting none the less.

Based on this, it would appear that the predictions of Canon's imminent demise are perhaps somewhat exagerated.

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