Canon popularity on Alaska Cruise.

-Well my family took a cruise to Alaska. 6 days on the boat and 6 days inland.

It seemed that the majority of SLR's were Canon.

I would say I saw:

30 Canons
2 Nikons
2 Minoltas
1 Oly OM2

My wife mentioned it to me, she noticed the proliferation of Canon gear.

There was a proliferation of digital cameras, lots of Oly and Canon P&S's. Not one single DSLR.

Walking around with A D60, grip and 100-400 is a little nerve racking. I must of taken 30 photos of couples with their own cameras when they saw what I was shooting. The only person who new what I was shooting was a bartender in Anchorage, he went nuts over the D-60. I had a lot of people with P&S's ask me why I wasn't shooting digital. Or they would attempt to be sly and say things like "Yep, I bit the bullet and went high tech." I would look innocent and say say "Oh thats nice" then show them my LCD, they didn't know there were DSLR's. They were never rude, just excited about their new cameras.

Keep in mind this cruise was a rolling retirement home. I am 50, my wife is 44 and we felt like young kids!

However, inland I also noticed a large number of Canon SLR's on most tourests, both young and old. As people switch to DSLR's this may work to Canons advantage.

Regards,

Jeff Morris

Adams, Gutmann, Steichen, Stigletz, Weston. they lead by example.

Jeff, I leave tomorrow for the Queen Charlottes, the Yukon and Alaska. Were there inland areas you found especially appealing photo-wise?

Jeff Morris said:

-Well my family took a cruise to Alaska. 6 days on the boat and 6
days inland.

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James

Amateurs almost always shoot Canon SLRs. http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/7.htm

Jeff,

My wife and I did a cruise-tour in Alaska in June. We took a D60, 28-70, 70-210 (lens from old EOS 630 days), an S20, and a video camera. The video was used some, the S20 never, and the D60 all the time. You can see more at http://www.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1019&message=2911506 .

DWB

First. Since most Amateurs are Canon shooters and Amateurs can go
to Artist, if you own a Conon you can go to Heaven.

Second.

"These people are easy to identify. If you've read this far you've probably seen their websites. They always have lots of info about equipment, but very few real photographs. Beware of any information from any website not loaded with photography you admire. "

Explains his site pretty well

Actually, this is a funny read worth the time.

Steven

dphilips said:

Amateurs almost always shoot Canon SLRs.
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/7.htm

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My really bad summer pictures:
http://www.pbase.com/snoyes/summer_travels

I love it. Best thing I have read in months. Strike me down if I ever call myself a "professional." Proud to be an "amatuer" looking for enlightenment.

dphilips said:

Amateurs almost always shoot Canon SLRs.
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/7.htm

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Maybe my D60 meters correctly and it is me that is overexposed???

Just came back from a Cruise as well, but this was to Mazatlan and Puerto Villarta. Did you notice the onboard photographers checking out your equipment? I just brought my D60, grip, Tokina 24-200 ATX, so I could travel light.

Last year in was in Italy for 3 weeks with my E10, many time
I would get stares from people and a few times was asked to take their
photo with their camera.

This May, I was in Italy and Paris for two weeks with my D60.

Again I was asked to take photos of people with their camera, but I must
have been askedat least twenty or thirty times. Many times when I was
asked there opening line was "Excuses me, my camera is not a
sophisticated as yours but would you mind taking my photo with
my camera?" I swear when I was in Milan I saw a Italian couple about
to ask me, the guy look at my camera and it scared him off. When I was
on top of the Eiffel Tower I had three couples waiting for me to take
their photos with their camera.

This same line has been use in my home town NYC, when I am in Central
Park especially with they tourist.

No one yet has every asked me after I took their photo, would I like
to have my photo taken with my camera.

I would say no thanks. BUT IT WOULD BE NICE TO BE ASKED!

But many times this can be fun especially when you know you will
get a keeper photo for them.

In May, I on the top of Arc of Triumph in Paris, taking photos with
my D60 and a couple politely asked me to take their photo with
their P&S. No problem, give me a second, I said. Put the lens cap back on,
power down the camera and placed it back in the camera bag where
it is safe. I took their PS and they posed for the photo. Then I mention
if there move more to the left I could take them and have the
Eiffel tower in the background. They smiled at me and said good idea.

I remember in Vatican City in Rome two guys ask me to take their
photo with the camera. They did not speak any English so it was
hand signs to communicate, I gave them a thumbs up and then
they gave me the camera and they posed for the photo with the
Vatican church in the background. I said no my head then it took me
a few more minutes with hand signs until one them understood what my
problem was. They decided to stand in the same direction of the sun.
Now they have a keeper photo instead one of lens flare.

Sorry for wasting your time.

Bill

I was in Amsterdam back in 1993 or so, standing in front of a very photogenic canal scene. A nice Japanese man came up to me and my girlfriend, handed me his camera, and said in barely understandable English "I take you, you take me" I took a shot of him on his point and shoot, and he took a shot of us on my EOS 10s.

When we had the film processed, his was the best image ever captured on my camera! Perfect composition, focus, and exposure.
I can only hope the one I took of him was half as good.

William C wrote:
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Member said:

I would say no thanks. BUT IT WOULD BE NICE TO BE ASKED!

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kencal said:

Did you notice the onboard photographers checking
out your equipment?

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My wife and I are just back from an Alaskan cruise. The deal I made with onboard photographers was simple - one picture of us and one picture of them

The photographers were the only ones to notice my D-30, although several of us shooting Canon equipment gave knowing nods as we passed one another with 100-400L zooms on our cameras.

On a whale watching cruise with my 100-400L in use on a Bogen monopod, I was asked by one P&S user if I was "expecting trouble" packing such a heavy piece of equipment. I told him no, but a 100-400L on a monopod would slow down most large land mammals should the need arise. Thankfully no large land mammals decided I was either an appropriate meal or serious competition and I was left alone by the local fauna

One quick shot of one of the very friendly photographers on the MV Mercury....

http://www.pbase.com/image/3217776

I'm surprised that people did not notice the big Digital word on the neckstrap, or are you wearing another neckstrap?

John

Jeff Morris said:

-Well my family took a cruise to Alaska. 6 days on the boat and 6
days inland.

It seemed that the majority of SLR's were Canon.

I would say I saw:

30 Canons
2 Nikons
2 Minoltas
1 Oly OM2

My wife mentioned it to me, she noticed the proliferation of Canon
gear.

There was a proliferation of digital cameras, lots of Oly and Canon
P&S's. Not one single DSLR.

Walking around with A D60, grip and 100-400 is a little nerve
racking. I must of taken 30 photos of couples with their own
cameras when they saw what I was shooting. The only person who new
what I was shooting was a bartender in Anchorage, he went nuts over
the D-60. I had a lot of people with P&S's ask me why I wasn't
shooting digital. Or they would attempt to be sly and say things
like "Yep, I bit the bullet and went high tech." I would look
innocent and say say "Oh thats nice" then show them my LCD, they
didn't know there were DSLR's. They were never rude, just excited
about their new cameras.

Keep in mind this cruise was a rolling retirement home. I am 50, my
wife is 44 and we felt like young kids!

However, inland I also noticed a large number of Canon SLR's on
most tourests, both young and old. As people switch to DSLR's this
may work to Canons advantage.

Regards,

Jeff Morris

Adams, Gutmann, Steichen, Stigletz, Weston. they lead by example.

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