This article appeared in the Los Angeles Times dated December 23, 2011
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/…echnology/2011/12/phone-camera-photos.html
The essence is 27% of photos and videos taken this year were shot with smartphones — up from 17% last year. Not surprisingly, sales of the basic digital point-and-shoot cameras suffered.
For the upper-level point-and-shoots — with optical zooms of 10x or greater and an average price of $247 — unit sales grew 16%. And digital single-lens-reflex cameras — with an average retail price of $863 — were popular enough that some camera shops were out of them the week before Christmas. Unit sales were up 12%.
All of this according to a survey by NPD Group (formerly National Purchase Diary), a leading North American market research company.
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