Strodav wrote:
What Sony's marketing department might have done (yes, I'm speculating) is to offer fantastic discounts and service guarantees on their equipment to the major photojournalism and news agencies for advertising purposes. It's done all the time in many different industries with many different products.
Sorry but this is the usual fake news, conspiracy theory floated by all that refuse to believe these news services picked their cameras for their innovation, performance, reliability, and durability. I personally know the top folks at AP, and Gannett, having shot for them in the past and they had similar bids from all makers but chose Sony for the reasons they state in the articles in the links I posted, NOT for some special financial deal better than Canon or Nikon. LOL.
But no one at UHH EVER looks at the reality, they just fall back on their fanboy picture of the photo world and cant believe many of the World's top photographers and News Services would choose to use Sony exclusively over their beloved Nikon and Canon, or Fuji.
Be honest folks, I bet no one even opened up and read any of the articles I linked from those news services stating the actual reasons why they switched,
AP , Associated Press was the first to move exclusively to Sony in 2020, and the other news services saw how that worked out covering events around the world including the Olympics, top Pro Sports and breaking news . Even competing news services and their photojournalists talk to each other, and when the word got out how well the Sonys worked for AP, other News Services followed in rapid succession around the world.
Folks wake up to the new reality, Sony continues to be a top innovator in fullframe mirrorless COMPLETE systems, cameras, sensors, lenses.
And for the only other big news service (AFP) Agence France Press that went with Nikon Z9, we now know the truth there is a Sony image sensor in the Z9 . UHH'ers vehemently denied that possibility when I suggested that after talking to Sony Managers I know when the excellent Nikon Z9 was announced.
Now this is out " A new report from the folks over at TechInsights just revealed the maker of the imaging sensor at the heart of the Nikon Z9 flagship mirrorless camera. And that sensor is, drum roll, please… The Sony IMX609AQJ.Jun 14, 2022"
Cheers, it is all good folks, just get the facts straight and stop the fake conspiracy theories that Sony somehow paid to get these news services to switch. LOL