Prfofessional photographers

[johnh236]

Good afternoon,

I was wondering whether someone could shed some light on something that puzzles me. Its a simple question really!

Why do professional photographers (generally) seem to use Nikon cameras rather than other brands?

Many thanks for your time

[pug100]

They are have a long history of being very robust easy to use and will work in conditions where most other makes will stop working. Plus all the accessories you would ever likely to need as either a pro or semi pro from fisheye lenses and microscope attachments to underwater housings they make it all.

[johnh236]

Nice one, thanks for your help

[Buenchico]

They also use Nikon cameras because they're cheaper than what most professional photographers would really like to use. That's the brand name you'll find in the top advertising studios and being used by photographers at society weddings: Hasselblad.

Chris

[fo3nix]

Canon is also very well supported.

In the past few years, Canon really had the stranglehold on pro DSLR cameras. In the past year or so, Nikon have really come back.

They're used because they have a history of being reliable, robust, with good quality optics.

Also note that the lenses for SLRs generally come with a mount fitting for that brand (or even model) of camera. So Nikkor lenses fit Nikon cameras, but not Canon cameras. So many who used to use Nikon continue to do so, because they have some great lenses from years ago that still work well (though lenses for 35mm cameras have slightly different ranges when used with digital SLRs).

[jake-the-peg]

It does depend on the application.

As Chris says a lot of studio photographers use Hasselblad because they were working in large format 6x6cm negatives which provided very high quality images for enlargement and publication and had interchangable backs so you could do a quick test with a polaroid to make sure everything was right.

Bronica was a cheap wanna-be substitue, I recall my photography tutor had one and the noise it made!

Leica was often favoured by photo journalists like Robert Capa because it was light and robust although he used others too.

Of course with the switch to digital a lot of these reasons have gone but many of these brands have hung on to their existing customers