Camears
Flickr: Most Popular Cameras
by admin on Aug.18, 2009, under Camears, Flickr
Ok, everyone knows that the EXIF information recorded on Jpeg’s and other image files includes the camera model that the picture was taken on. Everyone should also know that when you’re PhotoShopping your image and you copy/paste and create new files, that EXIF information gets deleted! Thus, we must take the following with a grain of salt. Namely – professional and prosumer photographers that use DSLR’s are likely to edit their photo’s before posting to Flickr, often erasing their camera model information from the image! On the other hand, the iPhone “photographers” out there likely don’t care about editing (and why should they, the camera is incapable of anything decent anyway) and will likely use a built in program that will upload the photos automatically, thereby preserving the camera model information.
Thus, I move that the stats depicted in the screenshot do not correctly depict the true stance of cameras being used on Flickr. Of course I understand that other aspects affect the stats also. For example Flickr is used more in North America than in other places, thus it makes sense for iPhone to be on top as opposed to Nokia N95 (for example), which is more likely to use Ovi since its built in and Nokia is more of a European manufacturer.
Top 5 Most popular cameras on Flickr
On the other hand, it is nice to see that out of the 5 most popular cameras, Canon DSLR’s take the first, third and fifth places, and not some cheap Point & Shoots!
-Nokia FanBoy
