[TarMoo]

See Top Digital Cameras Ranked by Frequency of Use. Camera numbers are taken from photo EXIF on flickr.

The stats within flickr itself are broken as they reckon the D300 is the least used of any Nikon camera.

It is interesting to see that the top 20 cameras are all Canon and Nikon.

[bsuttie]

Cool!

Makes my Sony A300 seem even more special and precious as it doesn't appear at all.

Must be very exclusive . . .

regards

Brian

[senu]

Im sure the popularity has to do with ability, and cost... not nessesarily in that order
Also the marketing machines of Canon and Nikon are not to be underestimated
It would seem that by slightly underpricing entry level and some midrange bodies to temp newcomers into a "system" ( and brand loyalty) , the results of the poll could have been predicted
This is despite some useful "innovative" features like inbuilt IS (ect) which the Sony ( with thier Konica Minolta heritage ) have

[Ikki]

Originally Posted by bsuttie

Cool!

Makes my Sony A300 seem even more special and precious as it doesn't appear at all.

Must be very exclusive . . .

regards

Brian

Looking at the Flickr Sony chart puts the DLSR usage rankings like this:

1st A100 603 users
2nd A200 218 users
3rd A700 167 users
4th A350 125 users
5th A300 65 users

To put this into perspective, the Canon Eos 400D has 6700 daily users, though it's way ahead of anything else.

[Jas H]

Originally Posted by senu

Im sure the popularity has to do with ability, and cost... not nessesarily in that order
Also the marketing machines of Canon and Nikon are not to be underestimated
It would seem that by slightly underpricing entry level and some midrange bodies to temp newcomers into a "system" ( and brand loyalty)

The extensive, and excellent, lens line ups of Canon and Nikon are the primary reason for their present success I am sure. That's why I only considered these two when switching from film Pentax. I went with Canon, but it was close.

[Liquid101]

This only accounts for those users which leave their exif data intact. I'm sure there are many many thousands of users who use 'save for web' in photoshop and strip the exif data from the image completely.

[godfarter]

Originally Posted by TarMoo

It is interesting to see that the top 20 cameras are all Canon and Nikon.

I'm glad coming in at #21 and pushing to gatecrash the Canon/Nikon party is the Panasonic Lumix TZ3 with wide angle and 10x zoom...i love the Lumix TZ series

Been watching the olympics and i swear I see loads of spectators in the close up shots using lumix cameras..probably more popular there than over here

[Fozzybear]

Nikon D80 at number three.

No real surprise that the two Canons are at the top, they are very popular cameras! The Nikon D50 is slipping down a little though.

Interesting that you have to go a fair way down the list to find a cameraphone, and it's the iPhone! Shows that although a lot of people do use cameraphones, the SLR brigade are by far the most active on flickr.

[michael.redfern]

Originally Posted by godfarter

I'm glad coming in at #21 and pushing to gatecrash the Canon/Nikon party is the Panasonic Lumix TZ3 with wide angle and 10x zoom...i love the Lumix TZ series

Woo hoo! My very cam! Which took this (if I do say so myself) cracker last night: -

[senu]

Originally Posted by Liquid101

This only accounts for those users which leave their exif data intact. I'm sure there are many many thousands of users who use 'save for web' in photoshop and strip the exif data from the image completely.

Maybe so, but it is equally possibly true that owners of the stated popular ones also "save for web"

[senu]

Originally Posted by Jas H

The extensive, and excellent, lens line ups of Canon and Nikon are the primary reason for their present success I am sure. That's why I only considered these two when switching from film Pentax. I went with Canon, but it was close.

As it happens I use 2/3 Canons at home (350 ( less so now) 30D and 40D) and a Nikon at work ( D200) but after a short ( 4 month) spell with the "older" Sony A100 last year and more recently a K-M Dynax7 , I can understand why the near monopoly of Canon /Nikon is not absolute

[richard plumb]

Originally Posted by senu

As it happens I use 2/3 Canons at home (350 ( less so now) 30D and 40D) and a Nikon at work ( D200) but after a short ( 4 month) spell with the "older" Sony A100 last year and more recently a K-M Dynax7 , I can understand why the near monopoly of Canon /Nikon is not absolute

absolutely. Although I'm still not convinced by the lens lineup of the Sony, they are starting to show some innovative thinking in the DSLR area. Their FF will be one to watch, I'm sure.

Surprised how high up the 40D is, considering its relatively new.

[TarMoo]

The top 12 are DSLRs with the Canon G3 at No 13. I suspect SLR photographers take more pictures and have bigger memory cards than point and shoot camera users. In terms of market share I am sure compact cameras are the biggest segment, but it looks their owners are so prolific when it comes to pressing the shutter.

[springtide]

Originally Posted by Ikki

Looking at the Flickr Sony chart puts the DLSR usage rankings like this:

1st A100 603 users
2nd A200 218 users
3rd A700 167 users
4th A350 125 users
5th A300 65 users

To put this into perspective, the Canon Eos 400D has 6700 daily users, though it's way ahead of anything else.

From a Sony DSLR perspective, this doesn't really show us very much
12 months ago all Sony had was a single entry level DSLR and a load of lenses handed over to them from Minolta.

What would be really useful, is to see the % share that each of the DSLR vendors had 12 months ago, and how they look today - now that Sony has a 4 DSLR lineup with a 5th in September.

I guess we know that Sony's usage is growing, but we also know that the whoLe DSLR is still in growth, so they might not be making any grounds in market share.

Anyway, thanks for sharing!

[TarMoo]

For those interested in Sony sales the most recent DSLR sales figures in Japan for 1st half of 2008 are ....

Canon XSi/450D: 14.5%
Canon XTi/400D: 14.4%
Nikon D80: 13.1%
Canon 40D: 9.9%
Nikon D40: 9.2%
Nikon D60: 9.1%
Nikon D300: 4.4%
Sony A350: 4.1%
Nikon D40x: 3.8%
Sony A200: 2.8%

This shows 2 Sony models in the top 10 in Japan. In the west Canon has a higher market share than Nikon whereas in Japan Nikon and Canon have roughly the same share (40.6%).