iPhone Ranks in the Top 5 in Flickr Cams

Despite having only a 2-megapixel camera, Apple's iPhone ranks in the top 5 cameras (overall) used on Flickr, based on the site's Camera Finder (click above image to enlarge). Quite obviously, given that overall ranking, when looking only at camera phones, the iPhone is #1.

The top 5 cameras overall are:

1. Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
2. Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT
3. Nikon D80
4. Canon EOS 40D
5. Apple iPhone

That puts the iPhone into some pretty expensive company. For camera phones, the rankings are:

1. Apple iPhone
2. Nokia N95
3. Nokia N73
4. Nokia N82
5. Sony Ericsson K800i

Flickr does place this caveat on their site as far as camera phones go:

The graphs are only accurate to the extent that we can automatically detect the camera used to take the photo or shoot the video (about 2/3rds of the time). That is not usually possible with cameraphones, therefore they are under-represented.

C|Net theorizes that the iPhone's ability to tap into the social networking elements of Flickr, meaning it's ability to post pictures at will, and thus keep friends and relatives up-to-date on what's happening in your life.

They do also state, however, the statistics fluctuate daily, and that the holidays might be skewing the numbers.