Over a year ago I proposed collecting exif data (the data on the type of camera, settings, etc, generated by digital cameras for each photo taken) from Flickr, the online image sharing service, as a means of better understanding which devices correlated with which kinds of images, times of day taken, locations taken etc. Bighugelabs.com has now gone out and collected this data to see which camera types are most popular.

Of the cameraphones on the list, Nokia rates as the manufacturer of the most used cameraphone, and number 8 most used camera overall, in the most recent analysis of data from last week's recently uploaded images. SonyEricsson is just behind at number 9 overall for cameras. Motorola charts at 15, and HTC at 22. Nokia is probably ahead in part because of its tie-in to Flickr and distribution of Lifeblog software. An interesting trend that will be fun to follow.