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"Sarge" over at theonlinephotographer.com has completed the graphs and such for the "Your Favorite Camera" poll that Mike Johnston placed in March 2014.
The original poll post:
http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2014/03/your-favorite-digital-camera.html
Sarge's tabulations post:
http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2014/06/our-favorite-cameras.html
Interesting in that, of those polled, the E-M5 came in second only to the Nikon D700; of course that was in March and the E-M1 hadn't yet the track record that the E-M5 had then.
Obviously a totally subjective, non-scientific poll with only 650 photographers voting it's still kinda interesting.
I find it interesting as well that this is the "most responsive" poll ever taken by T.O.P. and it's on hardware, not photographic genre, photographer, era...photographers seem to be a techie bunch at heart. Makes me wonder how Kodak ("You push the button, we do the rest!") ever gained traction. There wasn't much 'tech' going on in those first Kodak boxes and what there was wasn't shared with the photographer
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There are frequent discussions of Art (the one with a capital "A") and Printing (check out http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2014/05/big-mystery.html ) on T.O.P. and some of those folks have some real chops - and yet the poll on camera bodies got everybody churnin'.
Interesting reading, even on a day when it isn't raining.
Regards,
Jim
The original poll post:
http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2014/03/your-favorite-digital-camera.html
Sarge's tabulations post:
http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2014/06/our-favorite-cameras.html
Interesting in that, of those polled, the E-M5 came in second only to the Nikon D700; of course that was in March and the E-M1 hadn't yet the track record that the E-M5 had then.
Obviously a totally subjective, non-scientific poll with only 650 photographers voting it's still kinda interesting.
I find it interesting as well that this is the "most responsive" poll ever taken by T.O.P. and it's on hardware, not photographic genre, photographer, era...photographers seem to be a techie bunch at heart. Makes me wonder how Kodak ("You push the button, we do the rest!") ever gained traction. There wasn't much 'tech' going on in those first Kodak boxes and what there was wasn't shared with the photographer

There are frequent discussions of Art (the one with a capital "A") and Printing (check out http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2014/05/big-mystery.html ) on T.O.P. and some of those folks have some real chops - and yet the poll on camera bodies got everybody churnin'.
Interesting reading, even on a day when it isn't raining.
Regards,
Jim