So what! Who cares what the most popular camera on Flickr is? Well um… I care and let me tell you why.

Primarily because I like trivia (HA!) but there are other much more valid reasons as well. Having watched these graphs for a while now I’m a believer in “As Flickr goes, so goes the rest of the world”. You see the simple fact that a smartphone, like the Apple iPhone 3G, can surpass every other DSLR on the planet tells me that more and more people are sharing every pointless photo that they take.

Realistically the iPhone is not even close to par with most Point & Shoot cameras when it comes to it’s photo taking ability.  But that is no matter as it’s been made clear that it’s built in internet connection makes it what it is. People send photos directly to flickr from their iPhone and I’m 100% sure that’s got everything to do with why it’s #1. As photographers we should take notice of this as it shows a growning social trend to share. And some of you still wonder why your clients want a copy of every photo you take on disk.

What do you guys think about the iPhone being top dog on Flickr?

For giggles here are the most popular point & shoots as well as the most popular cameraphones. Enjoy!

Graphs via flickr’s camera page

About these graphs

These graphs show the number of Flickr members who have uploaded at least one photo or video with a particular camera on a given day over the last year.

The graphs are “normalized”, which is a fancy way of saying that they automatically correct for the fact that more people join Flickr each day: the graph moving up or down indicates a change in the camera’s popularity relative to all other cameras used by Flickr members.

The graphs are only accurate to the extent that we can automatically detect the camera used to take the photo or shoot the video (about 2/3rds of the time). That is not usually possible with cameraphones, therefore they are under-represented.

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