Canon beats Nikon in unscientific poll

Winner of the UK Wildlife Photo Competition 2011 - By Peter Denness with a Canon EOS-1D mark 2, with a canon 300 ml 2.8 lens.

December 2011. We recently published the winners and finalists from the UK Wildlife Photography Awards 2011. We have since conducted a survey of what cameras the winners and finalists were using. The results showed that, of 24 cameras used, 15 were Canon, 8 were Nikon, and 1 was, remarkably the winner of the bugs category, a Fujifilm.

The most popular camera was the EOS 1D, which was used by 5 of the winners and finalists; a camera that costs £2-5000 depending on which version you get.  In second place was the EOS 40D, a snip at £4-500. Nikon D200 & 300 both had a couple of users, and both are available for under £1000.

Peter Denness, the winner, used a Canon EOS-1D mark 2, with a canon 300 ml 2.8 lens.

You don't have to spend £££ to take great photos - Or go into the countryside
The remarkable damselfly photo below was taken by Agnieszka Dymek using a Fujifilm Finepix S9600, an almost outdated camera that can be bought for just £100 second hand - And it was taken in in the middle of a city of 1.5 million people - On Southampton Common.

WINNERS OF THE UK WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2011

The Wildlife Extra UK Wildlife Photography Competition 2011 has been won by Peter Denness with his stunning image of a hare. We don't usually go for black and white images, but Peter's hare was just too good. 

THE WINNER OF THE 2011 UK WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION 'bugs' category IS THIS IMAGE OF A DAMSELFLY BY AGNIESZKA DYMEK  - Taken on a Fujifil Finepix S9600