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Why is Canon more popular than Nikon?

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CCarrera said:
One reason which I heard Canon was more popular than Nikon deals
with history. Canon provided a highspeed telephoto for sports
before Nikon did, so once people bought into a system they stayed
with it.

Another reason might be Canon provides more. More lenses with USM,
more market share, better point and shoots. Well atleast this is
what adevertising leads me to believe. Canon is in everything that
you would need, cameras, lenses, printers, and you can even invest
in Canon. Nikon is owned by Mitsubishi company.
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I agree with you that part of the reason is Canon's cheaper and more diverse lens selection. I found it interesting that Nikon is owned by Mitsubishi, I just assumed they were an independent company.
 
English said:
Yes, when I was growing up, I never heard of the name Canon. I
don't know whether this was different having grown up in England.

The Nikon name was the one to dream of. Even when I had my film
SLRs, I still promised myself I'd have a Nikon one day.
It took until I went to digital, but I have it now and I'm not
going anywhere anytime soon.

A name obviously does carry a lot of weight.
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That makes me wonder: is the typical Nikon user older than the typical Canon user?
 
arenaman said:
Spot on! Nikon needs to develop it's own sensors and get rid of
noise. Probably, for the sake of competition, go full frame, too so
that people aren't oblige to switch to Canon for it.
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Nikon was king in a time when this wasn't their problem. Your sensors came in rolls of 24, from Kodak or Fuji. Canon is very well adapted to the digital age - maybe with all the printers and copiers they make - because they produce their own chips. Nikon lets Sony make thier chips like they let someone else engineer the film.

Probably that was a good idea in the beginning, to let them put their expertise to work in other places instead of reinventing the wheel ... but Canon is clearly using their chip superiority to good advantage. A $3000 full frame SLR is very compelling.
arenaman said:
I love my D70s but I sometimes get a little frustrated that Canon
lenses are cheaper and their cameras often superior in the areas of
noise and resolution.
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I'm a visitor in your strange land; how much is a 135/2 from Nikon? This is my favorite lens, on my 5D.

People in the Canon SLR Lens forum are pretty jealous of the 200/2 VR, for the record. And Nikon has at least a much better reputation when it comes to wide angle lenses.

Canon makes some great lenses, too, but a lot of the newer ones are aimed at the consumers.
 
I give you an example: all Nikon dSLRs get approximately the same number of "clicks" on dpreview's panel (for instance today from 1.3% D50 to 1.6% D200, with D70s and D2Xs at 1.4%). Do you think that translates into Nikon's D2Xs being as popular as the D50 or the D70s? Obviously not: because of its price, the D2Xs is a much less popular camera than the D50, but it sure generates a lot of curiosity and interest.

Last year I did a poll by counting for a few days how many dSLRs of each make, Nikon or Canon, I see around me. The poll results matched very well with their true market share (with quite a market share advantage for Canon). I've repeated my poll this year. This time, other than the fact that there are many more dSLRs to be seen in the streets, my poll gave Canon only a very bare advantage in numbers: Nikon has sold nearly as many dSLRs in the past year as its main competitor.

Which in my own definition of "popular" means that one is about as popular as the other.
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Thierry
 
Not all shops that carry Canon carry Nikons. If one shop whines about lost sales due to close proximity of another shop then Nikon will honor that.

That fellow down the street gets no Nikon product. Small things like this affect the global culture of a product. More culture = more hits.
If Canon had screwed up the XT I would have a Nikon.

To date I never found a lens info site for Nikon lens comparisons like one found for Canon. Other than that I don't care. Whomever makes the most desirable product for the intended purpose at the time is in. If a product line gets boring it's time to change.
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Torch
 
It all seems clear to me having owned professional bodies from both brands...
Nikon is ahead on body design, quality and user interface, but

a) the CMOS sensor quality Canon 'produces' is not comparable to the sensor technology Nikon is 'buying'. The dynamic range and high ISO qualities are more than a little different.

b) the Canon lens family offers IS-technology at a price VR can't match and their quality is at least as good.

c) Canon offers full frame sensors... allowing real wide-angle photography and shallow depth-of-field shots with standard (read less expensive) lenses.

Nice images can be shot with both platforms, but if this is what counts the most I would give Canon a serious try.
 
Why is Canon more popular than Nikon?

Because Canon has more (affordable) lenses.
Nikon lenses are always 20-30% more expensive.

And for some cheap sharp lenses like 135 2.8 sf or 70-200 4 L there is no equivalent in Nikon's price/performance department.

I can see brighter future for Canon.
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Fuji & Nikon
 
H@ll of a lot closer to than comparing tires.

Now a DSLR is not digital without a sensor as is a car is not a car without an engine. So yes the sensor does drive digital, so it is the engine. Please don't claim it's the image processor.

Now lets hear something constructive.

Scott
Julia Borg said:
Julia Borg said:
The sensor is the engine of digital photography
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no. sensor is not "the engine" of photography, even if photography
is digital :)

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Julia
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http://www.pbase.com/sjhugoose
 
and how many pictures have you sen printed because of the camera's ergonomics?
 
sox OZ said:
I'm kinda glad that Nikon doesn't spend Millions $$$ on
advertising. Who do you think is paying for this, the consumer, you
and me. Also some companies get so tide up spending money on
advertising that they take it away from R&D of there products. I
think I would rather Nikon spend the money developing Cameras &
lenses that will be better for us to use, and at a price we can
afford to buy.
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a good advertising campaign=more people buying your cameras=lower prices
 
Scott Goosman said:
Now lets hear something constructive.
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constructive? you mean you want to know the construction of camera? :)

can you change the engine in the car for a better one?
yes.

can you change the sensor in the camera for a better one?
no. not yet at least.

the whole camera, more or less, is "the engine" of the camera.

you can't take other parts out of equation. if camera has poor flash system, whatever good is the sensor you can't get a shot.

you can't even take photographer out of equation :)

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Julia
 
At least in my experience I went with Canon because when I went digital they were pretty far ahead of Nikon (my first was a 10D). Nikon just didn't have anything near as good and I was going in from medium format so I was starting new and had no lenses. Now it is more even, Canon still wins for noise and pixels but Nikon has some nice stuff now too. If I were wanting to shoot digital landscapes (I still shoot those on film) I think I would use a D200, for my commercial use I like Canon (I like larger frame size).
Kenny
 
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