![]() ![]() If you’re not already using it, DT has plenty of helpful information on the service here, here, and here. Google Photos, for example, offers unlimited storage along with a bunch of other features. While the move is set to disappoint users of Flickr’s free tier who’ve been happily using Uploadr since it launched nearly 12 months ago, rival services will surely be looking forward to welcoming a few disgruntled Flickr users heading their way to make use of cloud storage solutions that cost the princely sum of nothing. To be clear, Flickr’s Auto-Uploadr tool for smartphones remains free, at least for the time being. That’s right, to continue using Uploadr you’ll need a Flickr Pro account, which costs $6 a month or $50 a year if you pay in one go, though a limited-time discount is currently offering 12 months for $35. ![]() This week Yahoo-owned Flickr announced it’s now charging for the service. Great thing was, the feature was free and offered up to a terabyte of space for all your media. All the uploads are private unless you choose to share them via the site, and Flickr also helpfully removes any duplicates it finds. The desktop tool lets you automatically back up all your images and videos from your computer’s hard drive, storing the content safely in the cloud and freeing up space on your PC in the process. When Flickr overhauled its photo service last year, it introduced a handy feature called Uploadr. The book is aptly titled, “The Best Camera Is The One That's With You.” Flickr users would apparently agree. Professional photographer Chase Jarvis recently published a photography book where the only camera that he used was an iPhone. Just about any point and shoot camera will deliver better image results than a smartphone, but who wants to carry an extra electronic device if you don’t have too. With so many cameras available today that are capable of taking great looking pictures, it’s not too surprising to find that convenience has trumped quality. Surprisingly, the older model iPhone 3G is in second place ahead of the 3GS model, even though it only has a two megapixel camera. The HTC Evo 4G and Droid Incredible round out the list at number four and five. The iPhone also takes the top three spots when it comes to the most popular camera phones, as well. Point and shoot camera sales have actually been on the decline in recent years and the majority of camera manufactures may one day stop producing them altogether, if this trend continues. You would think that regular point and shoot cameras would be right at the top of the list on Flickr as well, but this is not the case. Now the images produced with the iPhone 4 are really quite good, especially for a camera with a microscopic lens. ![]() The iPhone’s camera has progressively gotten better and better over the years. A big, heavy, DSLR, may take much higher quality photos, but they can’t compete with the convenience of a smartphone. It’s really not too surprising, however, as many people keep their iPhone’s with them most the time. The Nikon D90 has been out for about three years now and has sold very well, but the iPhone 4, which has been out for under a year and is considerably less expensive, is about to take the top spot on Flickr. But in about a month or so, if trends continue, Apple’s iPhone 4 will take the lead as the most popular camera on Flickr. Currently, the most popular camera used to upload pictures to Flickr is the Nikon D90, a fine DSLR that costs over a thousand dollars. ![]()
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