In 2011, 375 billion photos will be snapped, almost all digital

The blog 1000memories.com has launched an interesting calculation on the number of images taken since the dawn of photography to ogi, using many different bases to estimate. Interesting is the method used to estimate the number of images taken between 1901 (date of birth of the first consumer camera, the Kodak Brownie) and 1984 from which time PMIA Silver Institute and began to publish detailed annual data: analysts created a function that relates the number of pictures taken on the number of employees at the giant Kodak, and the production of cameras and rolls of film has done for years, the real part of lion.

Certainly it is not a reliable estimate of absolute numbers, but can give a measure of plausible trends, assuming that most pictures are taken more necessary it is being produced films and cameras. As we said the data are more accurate after 1984, and bear witness to an almost exponential growth in the number of shots taken over the world.



Interesting is the breakdown of film photography after 2000, when there was the record high of 85 billion photos taken on film. The advent of digital, much of which for Kodak was a pioneer but then missed the train more importantly, supporting a real explosion of the phenomenon: it is estimated that the current year will close with 375 billion shots.

Posted by: Wasim Javed