iPhone atop Flickr's cameraphone list once again

The iPhone continues to dominate Flickr's list of popular cameraphones. As pointed out by the folks at TUAW, the iPhone has once again spiked past the Nokia N95, no doubt a result of the iPhone 3G's recent launch and scads of new users taking photos with the device. Check out the graph below, but you can also look at all of Flickr's graphs by looking at the Camera Finder:

As you may remember, we last reported on the iPhone's Flickr spike in May, when the world observed that it shot past the N95 for the first time. In many ways, the iPhone's success on one of the Internet's most popular photo sharing services isn't surprising: its ease-of-use makes taking photos and e-mailing them to Flickr extremely simple compared to many obnoxious mobile phone interfaces. In other ways, it's also a little surprising, considering that the iPhone's built-in camera isn't exactly considered the best available. The two megapixels is only the beginning—the tiny lens, lack of autofocus capabilities, and atrocious low-light photos are only some of the complaints that users have about it.

As for other cameras that are popular on Flickr, the Canon PowerShot SD1000 managed to maintain its top spot among popular point & shoot cameras, while the Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi held steady at the top of the list for all of Flickr. The somewhat poorly-marked graphs represent trends over the last year and are normalized to account for new users joining Flickr at any given time, so if you're interested to see what people have been using lately, go ahead and check out the charts.

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