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07-06-2017, 09:53 AM   #1
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Photobucket made me join flickr

Now I can look at the flickr Pentax stats...

Flickr: Camera Finder

We can be happy, Pentax is ahead of Nokia, Blackberry, Kodak and Leica in terms of usage. Not ahead of any real camera companies but, hey....

Flickr: Camera Finder

Not surprisingly.... K-5 users (142 daily users) are the big contributors, the K-5 was an industry leader when it came out and still stacks up well against whatever you want to compare it to for the average shooter, followed by K-50 and K-30s, but, no Pentax body is anywhere close to the K10D. That is really not a good sign. And the K-x is really close to the K10D.

SO from the K10D there are 17 million images.
From the K-5, 14 million images, but add in the K-5II and you have almost 17 million images.

K-1 -915 images, average 1 daily user.
645z 51 images, 1 daily user

How bad is that?

The Canon 5D mkII has 235 million items and 714 daily users, many must have upgraded) The Canon 5D mk III has only 165 million items but 2902 daily users. That looks like the most of any camera out there.

There are more high end 1dx items than [rpbab;y the best two Pentax items combined at 23million. If course, shooting 15 frames per second you can take a lot more images.
The Sony A600 has 40 million items (1066 daily users)

the Nikon D7000 has 160 million items and 1329 daily users. It looks like the D750 tops the Nikon list with 1690 daily users.

Looking at flickr, you have to say, it's avery low percentage out there actually using Pentax gear. Not that we care much about numbers. I own, 3 of those cameras, that's all I need.

Between the 5D mk 2 and 5D mk 3 there are 3813 daily users. That's a lot of high end shooters with a lot of daily activity. Pentax's best two models K-5 and K50 240 daily users. Sometimes it's best not to think about these things and just go shoot.


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The stats for the K-3 have always been screwed up...Notice it's not in the top 5 for Pentax? No K-3 II either. They are under Ricoh...But the Q has never been listed.
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They do have the K-3ii if you look far enough, but it's way down the list, like at the bottom. 2000 images, 1 user per day.

I like my K-3 for birding and macro, but in some way's I like the K-5 better for landscape. Tess certainly does. She's still using her K-5, shooting mostly landscape, she likes her K-5 images better than my K-3 images, so, I'm not sure that's as bad a screw up as you might think. She does like my K-1 images, but she doesn't want to pay that much for a camera.

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I can't believe those numbers on the K1 can be accurate, I know I have over 100 images from the K1 on Flickr alone. In the Pentax K-1 group their is 294 members and over 13,000 images posted.

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There are some nice groups there. @Rupert has one...

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QuoteOriginally posted by normhead Quote
They do have the K-3ii if you look far enough, but it's way down the list, like at the bottom. 2000 images, 1 user per day.
But if you look under Ricoh...

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interesting stats; I have nearly 8000 shots on flickr, most by my K-3, but also some with my K-50....


makes you wonder how they collect the data....

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QuoteOriginally posted by pepperberry farm Quote
makes you wonder how they collect the data....
Exif. And they have always had trouble since Ricoh took over Pentax. We're not a big enough community for them to get it right...
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QuoteOriginally posted by pepperberry farm Quote
makes you wonder how they collect the data....
For Pentax, they mostly don't.
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QuoteOriginally posted by pepperberry farm Quote
interesting stats; I have nearly 8000 shots on flickr, most by my K-3, but also some with my K-50....


makes you wonder how they collect the data....
The stat listed above are daily stats. So, for the K-3, there was 2737 pictures uploaded by 179 users, yesterday only.
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But if you look under Ricoh...

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OK. you win, you out researched me...

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I think that puts the K-3 on top in terms of Pentax daily users.

And good to see the K-1 at 128 daily users, that's a pretty incredible number given the difference in cost between a K-1 and a K-3.
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Why would any serious photographer post on Flickr or similar site in order to have their images stolen? Most posters are likely non-professionals and looking foe ego gratification. Sorry to be blunt, but who cares?
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I know someone, on some other forum, who's very adamant about Flickr "statistics" accurately representing camera market shares... wait, that wasn't the kind of "care" you were talking about
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It could be that sophisticated Pentax users simply exercise more discretion when it comes to deciding what to post on Flickr. I mean, who wants to see 1800 pictures of your cat? That's my theory, anyway...
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