Do you often use Nikon cameras to shoot high quality press photos?

World famous press photo contestWorld Press Photo 2018Has announced the winning work of 2018 from the application photograph. Information on cameras and lenses used for shooting together with the winning works are posted, but please send this information to Spain 'PHOTOLARIWhen summarized, the fact of the shock is revealed.

Nikon dominates World Press Photo 2018 camera breakdown: Digital Photography Review
https://www.dpreview.com/news/1971689235/nikon-dominates-world-press-photo-2018-camera-breakdown

Of the 129 award-winning works of World Press Photo 2018, 97 pieces of information on which camera information was recorded. The most common are Nikon's "D5"D 810"And Canon's" EOS 5D Mark III ". Compared by manufacturer, it is understood that more than half of the winning works whose used cameras are known are using the Nikon camera.


The second most commonly used camera accounts for 29.9% of the total for Canon cameras. Since the ratio of Nikon's cameras is 51.5%, it is a result of Canon's separation far apart. For Fuji Film, the usage rate by manufacturer is 6.2%, Sony is 5.1%, Pentax and DJI are 2.1% each.


Furthermore, when examining the type of camera used, 83.5%Digital single-lens reflex camera, 11.3%Mirror-less camera, And others are 5.2%.

In addition, Canon's "5D Mark III", the most widely used among the winning works of World Press Photo 2017 (the details of the cameras that have been found out) is the second most commonly used canon "5D Mark II", the third is Canon's "Mark IV", and the Nikon camera's award rate was low. However, in World Press Photo 2017, it seems that 36 out of 45 award-winning works had been clarified in detail of the camera used.