Apple ousts Canon as top camera for Flickr uploads

As it had last year, Yahoo's Flickr has once again revealed the top camera brands used to capture photos uploaded on the website in 2014-2015.

Last year, Apple had displaced Nikon for the second position behind Canon. This year, the Cupertino, California-based tech giant has taken the top spot from Canon, and is followed by Nikon, Samsung, Sony, and Fujifilm, in that order.

In terms of the top cameras used to take photos uploaded during 2014-2015, the iPhone and Canon models captured all of the top 10 positions. Apple iPhone 6 was on top rank with 5 per cent share, followed by iPhone 5s (4.9 per cent), iPhone 5 (4.2 per cent), iPhone 4S (3.5 per cent), iPhone 4 (2.5 per cent), iPhone 6 Plus (2.2 per cent), Canon EOS 5D Mark II (1.9 per cent), iPhone 5c (1.8 per cent), Canon EOS Rebel T3i (1.6 per cent), and Canon EOS 5D Mark III (1.5 per cent). The first Android device (the Samsung Galaxy S4) is at 11th place.

It was also found that top 18 camera pairings are between iPhone models, with the top pairing of iPhone 5s and iPhone 6. "The Canon 5D mark II and III is paired frequently with iPhones, and we even see a few Canon and Nikon combinations on the list," said Flickr data scientist Bhautik Joshi in company blog post.

In 19th place is the iPhone 5 & Canon EOS 5D Mark II pairing, followed by Canon EOS 5D Mark II & Canon EOS 5D Mark III, iPhone 5s & Canon EOS 5D Mark II, iPhone 4S & Canon EOS 5D Mark II and others.

The report adds that in terms of pairings, 12.2 per cent photographers on Flickr used a camera phone and digital SLR camera pairing in 2015, while 12.1 per cent used camera-phone and point and shoot; 10 per cent used digital SLR and point and shoot, 2.4 per cent used camera-phone and mirrorless camera, and the same percentage of photographers used a digital SLR and mirrorless camera pairing.