Cellphones now 9% of "primary still image capture"

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<i><blockquote> ... according to a study by the Consumer Electronics

Association... cell phones now account for nine percent of primary still image

capture, which is more than double the 2005 rate.... <p>

 

Among consumers who now classify their cell phone as their primary image capture

device, 47 percent also own a digital camera.... <p>

 

"Digital Imaging Study Update: Sharing and Storing Photos and Video II" (October

2006) was conducted in August 2006. </blockquote> </i>

The WSJ had an article last week that said dslrs are now 20% of digital camera sales.

I was shooting a <a href="http://www.spirer.com/galaxxydec4/">show</a> the other night and there were two people including me shooting with cameras and about twenty people shooting with phones. That looks dead-on to the statistic.

The other night I was at a <u><A href = http://tinyurl.com/ww2f7>show</a></u> and saw no one with a DSLR, two people with digit p&ses, and around a dozen people shooting with their cellphonecams.

A while back, box cameras with single element lenses using roll film made up a sizable proportion of photos made. Then folders. Then Instamatics. I prefer to think of it as a good thing.

 

My first camera was a 127 Baby Brownie. My father never let me use his Kodak Duaflex, but last week I found it in a closet when he wasn't looking. Hah!!