iPhone Becomes Most Popular Camera for Flickr Photos

Monday August 17, 2009 1:43 pm PDT by Eric Slivka

Electronista points out that Flickr's Camera Finder is now showing that the iPhone is the most popular camera used for photos uploaded to the image sharing site. After approximately six weeks of trailing just behind the Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi, the iPhone has surged into the lead with a spike in activity over the past several weeks.

Flickr notes that the data is taken on a daily basis and measures the proportion of members who upload at least one photo from a specific camera on any given day. Because not all camera phones include model-identifying information in their metadata, such devices are under-represented in Flickr's data, although model identification is possible for approximately two-thirds of images uploaded.

Apple's iPhone has long been the most popular of the identifiable camera phones for Flickr uploads.

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jessica.

Posted: 36 months ago

This title is misleading. The iPhone leads CAMERAPHONES not CAMERAS.

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Dmac77

Posted: 36 months ago

This title is misleading. The iPhone leads CAMERAPHONES not CAMERAS.

Actually, according to the graphs, the iPhone leads in cameraphones, and normal cameras.

Don

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newyorksole

Posted: 36 months ago

This title is misleading. The iPhone leads CAMERAPHONES not CAMERAS.

Maybe you should take a CLOSER look.

I'm glad the iPhone is doing so well. But damn some company needs to do well also so Apple steps up the iPhone game!

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iphones4evry1

Posted: 36 months ago

This makes sense, since it is the camera that is always with you.

This title is misleading. The iPhone leads CAMERAPHONES not CAMERAS.

There are two graphs above.
The first graph is for all cameras.
The second graph is for cameraphones.
:)

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kymac

Posted: 36 months ago

this is cool and all.. but its pretty annoying when you go to flickr to be inspired by all of the professional photographs and its overloaded with cellphone pics. not like it used to be!

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eron

Posted: 36 months ago

this is cool and all.. but its pretty annoying when you go to flickr to be inspired by all of the professional photographs and its overloaded with cellphone pics. not like it used to be!

Well, there are now more AWESOME pics uploaded by professional photographers on their iphones.

Many would argue that it's the skills that matters, not the camera.

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macjram

Posted: 36 months ago

Well, there are now more AWESOME pics uploaded by professional photographers on their iphones.

Many would argue that it's the skills that matters, not the camera.

Photography is 80% the photographer and 20% camera.

something like that ;)

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jessica.

Posted: 36 months ago

Oh **** missed the little yellow line. :o

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nickXedge

Posted: 36 months ago

Well, there are now more AWESOME pics uploaded by professional photographers on their iphones.

Many would argue that it's the skills that matters, not the camera.

While I generally agree that the photographer is more important than the camera, there is a substantial difference in image quality when you're using a camera-phone versus using a full featured digital SLR.

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