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An Analysis of EyeEm’s Most Popular Cameras

Chris Gampat
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07/22/2015
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Photography app EyeEm is one of the best ways for a photographer to organically get discovered. You’ll also notice the feed is much different from Instagram. Your feed is filled with handpicked talent and albums so new talent can emerge. If you want to view what your friends are contributing, then you’ll need to specifically go to the “following” tab.

Browsing through the work of the artists on the platform introduces you to some of the similarities with VSCO and Instagram. For example, while lots of folks use their phones to shoot photos, there are many that use dedicated cameras and then upload to the service.

In fact, it may seem that dedicated cameras are more popular here than other platforms due to the bigger emphasis on art rather than celebrities, cats, and more. According to the company’s data, the most popular camera manufacturers in order are:

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Apple
SAMSUNG
Canon
NIKON
LG
Sony
Motorola

This isn’t really surprising as both Apple and Samsung have the most popular phones in the world and Canon and Nikon has most of the market share of the interchangeable lens camera industry. The only other dedicated camera manufacturer on this list is Sony, although we should clarify that Samsung does a pretty good job on making cameras too.

When it comes to actual devices used, the data becomes even more interesting. Apple’s iPHone 6 is the community’s most popular camera despite only being out for around a year. Phones overall dominate the list with Samsung being a big chunk of it and the Nexus 5 inching its way in there. As far as dedicated cameras go, it seems that EyeEm belongs to the hobbyists and enthusiasts still trying to build themselves. The Nikon D3200 and the Canon 60D are the most popular dedicated cameras.

Here’s the list:

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#1 iPhone 6
#2 iPhone 5 (s)
#3 iPhone 4 (s)
#4 iPhone 6 plus
#5 Samsung Galaxy S 3
#6 Samsung Galaxy S 5
#7 Samsung Galaxy S 4
#8 Nexus 5
#9 NIKON D3200
#10 Canon EOS 60D

Indeed, Nikon’s D3200 is one of Amazon’s best sellers.

So what does this actually mean? To be honest, not much when it comes to true creativity. Mobile phones have proven to the art community that a photographer’s work mostly depends on their ideas rather than the gear. These days, photographers shoot ad campaigns with phones. However, many people who get the iPhone do it for the camera’s abilities. In fact, Apple has patents to make the camera even better.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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