Some interesting stats were collected by using the Flickr API against ~10,000 recently uploaded photos per day that show the 100 most popular cameras used on Flickr. The top ten is made up of 5 Canons, 4 Nikons and a Sony.
What the stats don’t necessarily reflect is any true diversity of people using the cameras. By that I mean, if one person uploads 2000 shots from their camera while others are uploading only a few the numbers become skewed. Otherwise, what you are measuring is how often owners of a certain camera model upload pictures versus the actual popularity of the camera. Flickr also provides the option of not making EXIF data available, so I’m not sure how those would be recorded (or if they would be). Dunno, maybe the stats factor that in.
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