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IPhone 4 About to Be Flickr's Top Camera
- ugh 15y agoSubstantiating the old adage that the best camera is the one you have with you.
- colanderman 15y agoHence why I carry my G11 around with me.
- ja27 15y agoAnd the new adage that the easiest camera to upload to Flickr from is one with 3G/'4G' built-in.
- ggruschow 15y agoSmartphones are replacing standalone cameras, but the analysis in the article is busted. Popular camera models are constantly being replaced with newer shinier models, so of course every model trends down a little while after release. It'd probably be a lot more enlightening to do the analysis grouping usage by family (e.g. Canon G11, G10, G9, etc) once and then doing an age analysis for each family.
- h5n1 15y agoAgreed. Although it would be significant to note that, under that rationale, the iPhones would be grouped together again, and would likely be top dogs.
- dave1619 15y agoAs an avid smartphone user (have had several in the past couple years), the iPhone 4 camera is simply the first smartphone camera that takes really good pictures at a decent megapixel (5mp). Other smartphones are following, and the days of point & shoot cameras are numbered.
- statictype 15y agoFWIW, there are many smart phones with much better cameras than what the iPhone 4 has. Nokia and Sony already produce smartphones with very good cameras that rival point-and-shoots.
- buro9 15y agoIt's all about light and the lens... and no smartphone matches a point and shoot because irrespective of the megapixels if less light is going through a (much smaller) lens then there is less information to work with to make a picture. Megapixels != good cameras, a good lens does more than extra MP.
- spicyj 15y agoHave you tried the iPhone 4? It takes surprisingly good pictures.
- buro9 15y agoYes. And the iPhone3, Nexus One, Nexus S, Blackberry Torch, Samsung Omnia 7... and not one of them comes close to the 6 year old Panasonic DMC-FX01 that I've bashed up so much that I am willing to carry it in my jersey pocket when I go mountain biking. In low light or fast action, smartphones fail. In ideal conditions they're adequate, but so much happens outside of ideal conditions that I'd rather have my bashed up point and shoot at hand.