{"id":2236,"date":"2020-07-24T07:42:09","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T06:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/?p=2236"},"modified":"2020-07-24T07:47:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T06:47:26","slug":"changes-at-associated-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/24\/changes-at-associated-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes at Associated Press"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/ap-1024x195.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2238\" width=\"553\" height=\"105\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/ap-1024x195.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/ap-300x57.png 300w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/ap-768x146.png 768w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/ap-1536x292.png 1536w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/ap-2048x389.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/sony-logo.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2239\" width=\"423\" height=\"67\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/sony-logo.png 581w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/sony-logo-300x48.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the largest, and well respected press agencies, <strong>Associated Press<\/strong> has just announced an exclusive partnership with<strong> SONY<\/strong> for all their photographic needs (Still &amp; video).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While I can see,  from a purely &lsquo;mechanical&rsquo; point of view, the advantages with everyone using the same basic setup, I can&rsquo;t help thinking that this sort of exclusivity can only lead to the <strong>AP<\/strong> photographers being tied to the whim of <strong>SONY<\/strong> who may or may not &lsquo;lsiten&rsquo; to it&rsquo;s user base regarding future developments &#8211; with a captive audience, there is always this risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The current situation is far from ideal as the market is changing rapidly with the advent of the mirrorless camera, and that&rsquo;s why I think it&rsquo;s good to &lsquo;use&rsquo; this competition between manufacturers to get the very best from any particular innovation, or more, proposed innovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Canon, Nikon and Sony make some extremely good picture making machines &#8211; but all with sublte diff\u00e9rences that professional users use to their advantage. The simple fact that you can all share batteries or lenses if you&rsquo;re all using the same camera only really comes into play at sports events covered by numerous &lsquo;pool&rsquo; photographers (<em>T<\/em><i>he Olympics comes to mind &#8211; however, both Canon and Nikon go to great lengths to provide professionals covering the Olympics with enormous amounts of &lsquo;loaned&rsquo; camera Equipment &#8211; will Sony do this?<\/i>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> This is obviously terrifc marketing for <strong>SONY<\/strong>, and I wish them well &#8211; however it would be interesting to get the point of view of a few of the AP photographers pool&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the largest, and well respected press agencies, Associated Press has just announced an exclusive partnership with SONY for all their photographic needs (Still &amp; video). While I can see, from a purely &lsquo;mechanical&rsquo; point of view, the advantages with everyone using the same basic setup, I can&rsquo;t help thinking that this sort of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/24\/changes-at-associated-press\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continuer la lecture<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> de &laquo;&nbsp;Changes at Associated Press&nbsp;&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2240,"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions\/2240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}