Top 10 Digital Cameras on Flickr

zokiii writes "This list represents the top camera makes and models used to create photos uploaded to Flickr. The list is generated automatically by periodically sampling the EXIF data from the stream of recent uploads." This is actually an incredibly simple idea, but a really useful one when considering a new camera to buy. Score three points for scrapers.

Comments

Small error

[KokorHekkus]

Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL and Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL are the same camera AFAIK, just differnent names for different markets. It's called 350D in Europe, Digital Rebel in the US... rest of the world I don't know.

Guess it says something about the demography of the posters though.

Re:Small error

[savala]

Almost, but not quite. 350D and Digital Rebel XT (so positions 1 and 3) are the same.
Digital Rebel is the 300D, while Digital Rebel XTi is the 400D.

Also, here's the original (much more extensive) source, which is way more useful than just some stupid blog linking to it. Also good to see is this (month old) graph of the relative movement over time.

Fairly high end cameras

[binaryDigit]

Most of the cameras are all relatively high end stuff:

1. Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT
2. NIKON D50
3. Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL
4. Canon EOS 20D
5. NIKON D70
6. NIKON D70s
7. Canon PowerShot S2 IS
8. Canon EOS 30D
9. Sony CYBERSHOT
10. Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL

Don't know if this is really useful for the "average" consumer, but does give an interesting view of who posts on Flickr. It would be interesting to compare this with other sites like pbase and see how the camera distribution changes as the demographics of the users (and the intended audience of the site) changes.

or see FlagrantDisregards top 100 models / makes

[joejoejoejoe]

http://flagrantdisregard.com/flickr/topcameras.php

John has this for flickr too, and shows the top 100 makes and models. I think he uses the Flickr-API, ie not a scrapper. He says on the page "The lists are generated automatically by periodically sampling the EXIF data from the stream of recent uploads." and I think he hits that stream via the API...

Stop the spamblogging

[Anonymous Coward]

Astroturfing, viral marketing and spamblogging are really annoying and not at all subtle. If you have a list of the top ten cameras on Flickr, do it right and don't tie ads to such a simple nugget of information. You know that the Canon 350d and the Canon Rebel XT are the same camera, right? And guess what, d is for digital, you don't have to spell it out... How serious can reviews be that are written by people who put the same camera in spot 1 and 3 of a top ten list? Here's the list. There is no other worthwhile information on that site.

1. Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT
2. NIKON D50
3. Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL
4. Canon EOS 20D
5. NIKON D70
6. NIKON D70s
7. Canon PowerShot S2 IS
8. Canon EOS 30D
9. Sony CYBERSHOT
10. Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL

Re:Stats

[Uncle Rummy]

Actually, they do discuss this, though indirectly. They apparently are counting the number of pictures uploaded:

Further, you will notice that the D-SLRs dominate the list. Perhaps this is due to the sheer volume that photo enthusiasts (amateur photographers and professionals) upload on their sites, which sometimes serve as their portfolios. They're likely the ones to have Pro accounts, too, which gives them unlimited upload capability. Casual users, on the other hand, might not be uploading so frequently, and would probably have free, limited accounts.

I'd like to

[Klaidas]

I'd like to point out that it's not this super "Top 10" - it's just top 10 of *recently* uploaded, not top 10 of all photos.

Re:Stats

[shellbeach]

I don't think current digital cameras use CCDs, they are largely CMOS-based. That's still in a great many camcorders though.

Then you'd think wrong. The only digital cameras using CMOS are the Canon digital SLRs (and very fine CMOSes they are, too, giving arguably the best image quality of the 35mm or smaller format options).

All the rest, including Canon's non-SLR digitals, use CCDs (mostly manufactured by Sony, although Fuji has long been showing Sony how much better CCDs can be if you make them in a hexagonal pattern, and Panasonic's long been demonstrating just how bad CCDs can be if you don't buy them from Sony and don't have the smarts of Fuji :)

Re:Stats

[Name Anonymous]

Also to add to the question of MP count vs Quality is the size of the sensor.

(Roughly speaking:)

A larger 6 MP sensor will in general give a better image than a smaller 6 MP sensor.

Given two sensors that are the same size, the sensor with a larger pixel count has smaller pixels. A smaller pixel gets less light to sample. So at some point more pixels won't get you a better image at a given sensor size.

Over time the technology is impoving so a sensor of a given size and pixel count can be in general designed better over time.

Digital SLRs use large sensors than compact digital cameras, so in general an SLR wil give a better picture. (Ignoring all the other factors like the person handling the camera, quality of the lens (some campact cameras have lenses that are better than the least expensive SLR lenses).

Link to the original?

[MDMurphy]

The link is to a site who's main purpose it to regurgitate a few other site's text and surround it with ads ( yeah, like a lot of sites ). The original page: http://flagrantdisregard.com/flickr/topcameras.php has more details, week-to-week changes. The list is part of a larger collection of Fickr toys: http://flagrantdisregard.com/flickr/

Been there, done that (in June)

[Anonymous Coward]

Check out our blog article here: http://blog.ic-agency.com/en/2006/06/pictures_and_ th.html
We have also some cool graphs and a real market analysis ...

ISO, color and sensor size

[drgonzo59]

1. In general the 10MP=approx=35mm film might be true for B&W photos. For color the MP count would have to be larger, somewhere around 15 or 16.

2. Also with film it is possible to get ISO 50 film (Velvia for ex.) to match its resolution and color range it will take even more MPs.

3. When talking resolution MP are not the whole story, the sensor size is just as important. A small sensor with a lot of MPs is bad news since the images will be very noisy. People don't usually take this into consideration and only look at MPs. A lot of super-zoom and consumer models now have managed to fit a 10MP in their body but the images are nevertheless much worse than the same MP count images from a DSLR with a larger sensor.

I am assuming the lens is not a limiting factor.