Almost All Photos Are Now Taken on Smartphones

By Cort Johnson

June 21, 2023

Man wearing jacket and holding cell phone illuminated by blue and red lights. Concept of man filming the police on his smartphone
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According to a study carried out by a British photo store, 92.5 percent of all photos are now taken with smartphones.

The UK camera store Max Spielmann found that 1.8 trillion photos are taken every year - which equates to five billion a day or 57,246 photos taken per second!

Max Spielmann put the huge rise in photo-taking down to Instagram which it says has 1.3 billion images shared to the Meta-owned platform daily.

Listen to Carolyn and Cort from the Morning Breeze talk about it here:

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