A Major Change In Flickr Users' Most Popular Cameras Has Occurred! Flickr's Charts Need Changes To Regain Lost Usefulness
It looks like most photos submitted to Flickr are taken by mobile phones. What is most surprising is that the image quality is sufficient for this to happen.
Because of recent advances in the state of the art of micro-miniature camera technology, two of the charts are identical, after adjusting for the time axis scale difference.
All these charts need changes to be useful. I discuss these changes at the end of this writeup.
I found all this surprising until I realized that most of the time, for casual photography, I use my iPhone 6 Plus. I no longer carry a Kodak, Fuji, or a Canon camera in a trouser pocket in addition to the iPhone in my shirt pocket as I did just a few years ago. I still carry a camera with a zoom lens when I want to take portraits at night or indoors. And when I want to take long distance photos of specific people or of specific objects at a distance.
The image quality of the iPhone 6 Plus is surprisingly good. The main limitations for me are:
1. Lack of a viewfinder makes it difficult to see what I am shooting in bright sunlight. The same limitation applies to most current point and shoot cameras.
2. The zoom range is quite limited at the long and short ranges,
3. I haven't figured out how to set the shutter speed as a priority, and to consistently control the ISO setting.
I also find it interesting that the most popular current cameras of Flickr members are Apple's iPhones 5, 5s, 6 and 6 Plus and Samsung's Galaxy 5S camera phones. I have tried all of these, and thy are all quite good.
A Sony Xperia camera phone image is shown at the top. However, it doesn't make it to the charts.
A Canon and a Nikon DSLR are shown at the top, but they do not show up in the charts.
These charts are no longer useful for Flickr's P&S and DSLR camera users. We clearly need some changes in flickr's presentation charts. I suggest the following changes:
1. We need a separate category for camera phones.
2. We need separate Point and Shoot camera and DSLR camera charts,
excluding camera phones.
3. Each chart should show the most popular models within their own category, and their relative ranking amongst themselves.
A Major Change In Flickr Users' Most Popular Cameras Has Occurred! Flickr's Charts Need Changes To Regain Lost Usefulness
It looks like most photos submitted to Flickr are taken by mobile phones. What is most surprising is that the image quality is sufficient for this to happen.
Because of recent advances in the state of the art of micro-miniature camera technology, two of the charts are identical, after adjusting for the time axis scale difference.
All these charts need changes to be useful. I discuss these changes at the end of this writeup.
I found all this surprising until I realized that most of the time, for casual photography, I use my iPhone 6 Plus. I no longer carry a Kodak, Fuji, or a Canon camera in a trouser pocket in addition to the iPhone in my shirt pocket as I did just a few years ago. I still carry a camera with a zoom lens when I want to take portraits at night or indoors. And when I want to take long distance photos of specific people or of specific objects at a distance.
The image quality of the iPhone 6 Plus is surprisingly good. The main limitations for me are:
1. Lack of a viewfinder makes it difficult to see what I am shooting in bright sunlight. The same limitation applies to most current point and shoot cameras.
2. The zoom range is quite limited at the long and short ranges,
3. I haven't figured out how to set the shutter speed as a priority, and to consistently control the ISO setting.
I also find it interesting that the most popular current cameras of Flickr members are Apple's iPhones 5, 5s, 6 and 6 Plus and Samsung's Galaxy 5S camera phones. I have tried all of these, and thy are all quite good.
A Sony Xperia camera phone image is shown at the top. However, it doesn't make it to the charts.
A Canon and a Nikon DSLR are shown at the top, but they do not show up in the charts.
These charts are no longer useful for Flickr's P&S and DSLR camera users. We clearly need some changes in flickr's presentation charts. I suggest the following changes:
1. We need a separate category for camera phones.
2. We need separate Point and Shoot camera and DSLR camera charts,
excluding camera phones.
3. Each chart should show the most popular models within their own category, and their relative ranking amongst themselves.