Study reveals the most popular cameras in every country, based on
millions of Flickr photos
Flickr is the greatest slide show carousel in the world. And serious photographers love to let their audience know that they’re using the greatest cameras to fill it.
While Instagram has become a platform for memories and ‘content,’ Flickr is where photographic quality and technique set the agenda. Flickr may have fallen out of the limelight when camera phone photography and social media emerged as perfect partners in the late noughties, but professionals and enthusiasts continue to gather there to share notes and discoveries.
Technique is hard-won, but knowing the camera, lens, f-stop, etc., that a photographer used to get a particular effect narrows down the variables. And, thanks to the metadata-storing capabilities of digital camera devices, Flickr’s photographers tend to broadcast their set-up by copying the metadata of their photo files over along with their snaps.
As SimpleGhar demonstrates with our latest research project, collectively, this data reveals the ‘go-to’ cameras and camera phones that Flickr’s photographers are using around the world.
