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05/08/2005 03:49:55 PM · #1 |
Interesting stat?
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05/08/2005 03:54:03 PM · #2 |
My first digital was a Kodak DC290, but I'm about to buy my 4th Canon since then.
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05/08/2005 03:55:16 PM · #3 |
| Slippy, where did you get THAT bit of wisdom from? |
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05/08/2005 03:57:12 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by Beetle:
Slippy, where did you get THAT bit of wisdom from? |
As far as I remember, this survey was based primarily on consumer level P&S cameras... once you hit the dSLR market, all bets are off.
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05/08/2005 03:57:25 PM · #5 |
| I don't think a sample of under 1000 is valid. Besides, the most popular brand is probably Nokia ... |
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05/08/2005 04:22:20 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by Beetle:
Slippy, where did you get THAT bit of wisdom from? |
Link to press release |
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05/08/2005 04:37:35 PM · #7 |
My first digital camera was a Kodak but I have two Canons now.
June
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05/08/2005 06:02:56 PM · #8 |
Hmpfh.... "women prefer Kodak", "women are generally less comfortable with technology" etc
I am feeling decidedly "un-ladylike" right now! |
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05/08/2005 06:04:21 PM · #9 |
| I'm a tomboy and I like Canon. |
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05/08/2005 06:15:26 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by chiqui74:
My first digital camera was a Kodak but I have two Canons now.
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Ditto.
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05/08/2005 06:22:14 PM · #11 |
I wonder if this stat is skewed because of the large number of men represented in the professional world. A vast majority of newspaper shooters are men, and it is still a man dominated industry. I notice that the number of Nikon users are greater in the male column as well.
Since those are the two manufaucturers that make pro level equipment, perhaps the average woman buys a kodak point and shoot.
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05/08/2005 07:01:46 PM · #12 |
My first digital camera was a Canon.
My second digital camera was a Canon.
My third? Who knows! Canon? |
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05/08/2005 07:11:06 PM · #13 |
| I wonder if it has something to do with demographics. It seems to me that on average, women are more likely to have a digital camera or even a camera period. Now, I'm basing this entirely off the people I interact with, which certainly isn't a random sample, but somehow it seems like women are more into documenting their life and having pictures of their friends and family and things. It seems like Kodak makes a lot of the really cheap low end digitals, so maybe they've cornered the market on people that really want a camera, but are on a low budget. |
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05/08/2005 07:18:42 PM · #14 |
| Remembering back, I think my first film camera was indeed a Kodak. It was a 110. Then I got one of those really cool Kodak Disc cameras when I was in junior high. I think the film camera I had when I first married was a Samsung or some other S-word company. Then my first digital was a Kodak again, I think it was a DC280. Then I got a Sony DSC-P32, then another Kodak (DX-6490), then the Canon Rebel, and now the Canon 10D. I don't think it had anything to do with price at any particular time. Kodak does have a strong reputation as being a decent little camera company, and most of us women are pretty serious about quality. Their cameras tend to be user friendly, too (another feminine plus). I could be wrong though. ;o) |
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05/08/2005 07:22:20 PM · #15 |
| my first digital camera was a kodak d40...oh dear god what a dinosaur...$600 for no focus...yikes....then about a year and a half ago i wanted to start taking pictures...other than of my children...but i wanted to have control....so my hubbie got me a minolta 35mm...i loved it...too much...developing 8-10 rolls of film a day was a nasty habit..so i decided to go digital...didnt know squat about what to buy...saw one in a store that had the feel of a 35mm read some reviews and bought it....now im a panasonic lumix girl...and very happy...and still uneducated..... |
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05/08/2005 08:22:12 PM · #16 |
The only Kodak I ever owned was a Kodak 110 Instamatic ages ago. Canon all the way since then, film and digital.
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05/08/2005 08:45:14 PM · #17 |
My first digital was kodak, but I only bought it because it was cheap and i didnt know much back then.
Mayber others are teh same though. Girls may want a functional camera so they can take pics of the kids and things. Men may want something with a little more grunt.
I don't know lol
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05/08/2005 08:47:18 PM · #18 |
every camera i have owned apart from what i have now has been a canon. I love canon's they are definately my preference over anything. Trying very hard to save for 300d, by the time i save they wont sell them anymore. LOL
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05/08/2005 09:07:38 PM · #19 |
when my skirt comes back from the dry cleaners
I'll go out to the Mazda 121 and check in my hand bag and see if I still have my Kodak :)
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05/08/2005 09:27:44 PM · #20 |
Originally posted by Firsty:
when my skirt comes back from the dry cleaners
I'll go out to the Mazda 121 and check in my hand bag and see if I still have my Kodak :) |
your too funny! LOL
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05/08/2005 09:31:22 PM · #21 |
A good bit of it has to do with marketing. A very common complaint I hear from the "soccer mom" group is that their husbands get digital cameras that are too complicated and then they never see prints. Kodak markets simple use, and easy to make prints.
I sell a lot of Kodaks because of the ease of use. When you put the camera on a program setting, it explains what that setting is. For users who are not computer savvy that prompt is very reassuring.
The number isn't suspect and can be backed up by both sales data and anicdotial evidence from retailers.
Mind you, I do try to talk people out of them. ;)
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05/08/2005 09:41:28 PM · #22 |
Originally posted by bryanbrazil:
My first digital was a Kodak DC290, but I'm about to buy my 4th Canon since then. |
My first digital was a Kodak DC215 1.3MP, couldn't take a shot to save my life with it back then...fired it up a couple months ago, still couldn't take a picture with it...(tossed it out as the battery holder was duct taped together anyways).
On my third Canon... |
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05/08/2005 09:57:20 PM · #23 |
Maybe this is too much of a demographic?
Men: Brand oriented
Women: Value oriented
sorry if i am immature for saying it
ive been canon since i got my dad's FTb
Message edited by author 2005-05-08 21:58:19. |
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05/08/2005 10:12:18 PM · #24 |
My guess is that the statistic would need to be cross checked agaist the income of the people who buy the cameras. When done that way you might discover that men and women in the $60,000+ a year bracket shop Canon while those in the $30,000 to $40,000 a year bracket (which might include the majority of women) buy Kodak. (These numbers are just examples of what you might find though I suspect it all works out this way.) Which camera is bought may also be a function of number of children in the family. Who knows?
Originally posted by lemondster:
Maybe this is too much of a demographic?
Men: Brand oriented
Women: Value oriented
sorry if i am immature for saying it
ive been canon since i got my dad's FTb |
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05/08/2005 10:19:03 PM · #25 |
Oh no, do all the women of DPC hate me now for posting a sweeping generalization? Hey, don't shoot the messenger! But, in all honesty, I'm such a photonewbie that I didn't even realize that Kodak was a bad thing, I just thought the stat might interest some of the stats-hounds here.
I admit it ladies, I'm bad, very baaad. I think I need a spanking!
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