Nikon vs Canon-what does geography have to do with it? This past August, when I was vacationing in San Diego, Ca., I was curious regarding nikon shooters vs. canon shooters. I noticed...

Elsiss Loc: Bayside, NY, Boynton Beach, Fl.

This past August, when I was vacationing in San Diego, Ca., I was curious regarding nikon shooters vs. canon shooters. I noticed that there were more nikon shooters(dslr cameras) by a ratio that I calculated to be 4:1. I found that quite remarkable after doing a similar survey in my hometown one busy afternoon in manhattan, NY, where I calculated a ratio of canon to nikon, 4:2! I thought the ratios from San Diego and New york would be very similar. I dunno. Any thoughts on this?

shutterbob Loc: Tucson

West coast people are smarter?

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

More and better camera stores on east coast?

LFingar Loc: Claverack, NY

shutterbob wrote:

West coast people are smarter?

Yeah, everybody knows that California is the definition of normal! :D BTW, isn't Sharpshooter from northern Cal? All by himself he could change the percentages!

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

Elsiss wrote:

This past August, when I was vacationing in San Diego, Ca., I was curious regarding nikon shooters vs. canon shooters. I noticed that there were more nikon shooters(dslr cameras) by a ratio that I calculated to be 4:1. I found that quite remarkable after doing a similar survey in my hometown one busy afternoon in manhattan, NY, where I calculated a ratio of canon to nikon, 4:2! I thought the ratios from San Diego and New york would be very similar. I dunno. Any thoughts on this?

I think it definitely a geographical situation. People on the land masses of Earth prefer Nikon. Those people that live upon the water mass tend to prefer Canon.

Dennis

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Sharpshooter is from the Bay area, get a map of CA and measure, almost half the state is north of him.
Retired Geography and History teacher, just get the overwhelming urge to point this out every so often. Bay Area thinks they are northern CA, really they are in the middle.

LFingar Loc: Claverack, NY

robertjerl wrote:

Sharpshooter is from the Bay area, get a map of CA and measure, almost half the state is north of him.
Retired Geography and History teacher, just get the overwhelming urge to point this out every so often. Bay Area thinks they are northern CA, really they are in the middle.

Doesn't matter to me. We'll be in the Bay area next month. As long as the pilot knows where it is at and the ground doesn't do anything stupid while we are there then all is good!

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Odds are long on stupid ground, but it is near San Francisco, those people are strange, not like us semi sane southern californians.

LFingar wrote:

Doesn't matter to me. We'll be in the Bay area next month. As long as the ground doesn't do anything stupid while we are there then all is good!

LFingar Loc: Claverack, NY

robertjerl wrote:

Odds are long on stupid ground, but it is near San Francisco, those people are strange, not like us semi sane southern californians.

Well, at least you seem to have better tans!

RWR Loc: La Mesa, CA

Elsiss wrote:

This past August, when I was vacationing in San Diego, Ca., I was curious regarding nikon shooters vs. canon shooters. I noticed that there were more nikon shooters(dslr cameras) by a ratio that I calculated to be 4:1. I found that quite remarkable after doing a similar survey in my hometown one busy afternoon in manhattan, NY, where I calculated a ratio of canon to nikon, 4:2! I thought the ratios from San Diego and New york would be very similar. I dunno. Any thoughts on this?

And the importance of this is???

LFingar Loc: Claverack, NY

RWR wrote:

And the importance of this is???

It's the start of the weekly Canon vs Nikon pie throwing contest. You had to ask? :D

mwalsh Loc: Houston

I think it has something to do with the centrifugal force of the earth's rotation and fault lines. Photographers on the west coast are worried about getting pitched into the ocean, and they need a good anchor to keep themselves from being washed out to sea. So they buy Nikons!!

MT Shooter Loc: Montana

Elsiss wrote:

This past August, when I was vacationing in San Diego, Ca., I was curious regarding nikon shooters vs. canon shooters. I noticed that there were more nikon shooters(dslr cameras) by a ratio that I calculated to be 4:1. I found that quite remarkable after doing a similar survey in my hometown one busy afternoon in manhattan, NY, where I calculated a ratio of canon to nikon, 4:2! I thought the ratios from San Diego and New york would be very similar. I dunno. Any thoughts on this?

Since opening my little camera store here in Montana I have kept very close track of the number of my customers that have switched from one brand to the other in that time at the store. Nikon users to Canon-1 (he married a Canon shooter that had LOTS of lenses). Canon to Nikon-42. I think that tells the whole story in this little remote part of the world.
And the complaints I get from the Canon converts are always the same, but I won't get into all that here at this time as it really does not pertain to the OPs question.

mdorn Loc: Portland, OR

robertjerl wrote:

Sharpshooter is from the Bay area, get a map of CA and measure, almost half the state is north of him.
Retired Geography and History teacher, just get the overwhelming urge to point this out every so often. Bay Area thinks they are northern CA, really they are in the middle.

Ture. Coming from SJ, CA myself, I always wondered why I lived in Northern CA when it seemed like the middle. However, according to Wiki, this is the distribution.

North & South CA
North & South CA...

RWR Loc: La Mesa, CA

LFingar wrote:

It's the start of the weekly Canon vs Nikon pie throwing contest. You had to ask? :D

:oops: :lol: