Let’s be honest, the iPhone‘s shonky, flashless camera isn’t exactly its main selling point. But man, do iPhone owners enjoy uploading their snaps anyway: the touchscreen phone is poised to become the most popular camera used on photo sharing site Flickr. Serious shutterbugs, prepare to be outraged.
Flickr keeps a handy chart of what cameras are being used to take snaps shoveled on to the site, and while Canon’s EOS 400D DSLR (Digital Rebel XTi to the Yanks) has been sitting pretty as the number one snapper of choice for some time, a recent iPhone spike means it’s about to be overtaken by the smartphone, as the graph shows.
In fact, the LA Times has already found the iPhone overtaking the Canon, though fluctuations mean it’s dropped slightly below once more. It goes to show you just how much import people place on being able to upload and store shots automatically, wherever they are, even at the expense of picture quality: 6,041 iPhone owners uploaded 52,801 photos on to Flickr yesterday alone. Scary reading for serious snappers: is the iPhone doing to photography what MP3s and iPods have done for music quality?
Out TBC | £TBC | Apple (Via The LA Times)
