Your smartphone's built-in camera can't match the photo quality and features offered by a standalone camera, but that's not stopping most people from using their phones to take pictures. According to recent data from photo-sharing site Flickr, charted for us by Statista, smartphones are far and away the most popular photographic device.
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The iPhone was the camera of choice in 2017, but standalone cameras still have a loyal following (AAPL)
Half of the photos uploaded onto Flickr in 2017 were captured by smartphone cameras.
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Half of the photos uploaded onto Flickr in 2017 were captured by phone cameras, while digital SLR cameras accounted for one third of the pictures. Point-and-shoot cameras, once the standard tool for amateurs to snap red-eyed photos of family dinners and birthday parties, are now a distant third place.
When it comes to smartphone cameras, Business Insider's Antonio Villas-Boas found the iPhone 8's camera to be the best of the pack. And Flickr users seem to agree: more than half of all photos uploaded to the service in 2017 were taken on an iPhone.
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