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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.
Actually not entirely true, the digital rebel is the EOS 300d, not the 350d, the 350d is the digital rebel xt.
There's a fast comparison of those two at dcresource
Basically 350 has a few improvements, it has more internal memory (hence 14 instead of shot bursts), it has usb 2.0 instead of 1.1, its just under 15% lighter and has a better battery, iaacte (i am a camera test engineer (at Phase One))
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Just because people using Flickr use certain camera types doesn't mean they're the best cameras. They might be, but then again it might be that people who've just spent a fortune on a digital camera are far more likley to upload pictures than casual users. It would even be easy to skew the results simply by dumping a load of pictures up on the site from a certain brand and make it appear that it is more popular than it is.
They took a shot of a rather tasty presenter lass in a catsuit, and enlarged the images to cover the side of a multi-storey building in the centre of Birmingham.
There were slight differences in the appearance of the two unbelievably large posters, but resolution was not one of them.
This made me think that, save for extensvie enlargement and manipulation, maybe there's not much need for any resolution beyond 10MP. Okay, so it wasn't exactly a scientific study, and it's a simplified case, but if that was a few years ago then how much more development in resolution do cameras really need today - especially the point-an-shoot variety.
While the MHz war was a little futile and misleading, it did help to drive up the performance of home PCs in general. The MP war will probably, as you say, be a boring and inevitable one, but I can't see that it will be of any benefit to the consumer. There's no accounting for marketing...
Meta will eat itself
Wow, if we could only do the same thing, but with DVD players- that would really tell you which DVD player is the best..... NOT!
Yea, they have statistics on what cameras are being used, but the ONLY thing you can take away from that is which cameras people happen to be buying- and not whether those cameras are the best or not. I'd like to think that people buy the best, but thats not the truth- people buy marketing hype. They are more likely to buy a camera based on its appearance than the quality of the photos it takes, and that is a fact.