Flickr's most popular cameras

Logicamera looked at the metadata on all the photos on Flickr and drew up a ranked list of the most popular cameras among Flickr's shooters. Most digital cameras encode their model number in a hidden metadata field on the pictures they shoot, making it possible to generate these kinds of lists without having to get all Flickr users to fill in a survey about their camera choices.

1. Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT
2. NIKON D50
3. Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL
4. Canon EOS 20D
5. NIKON D70
6. NIKON D70s
7. Canon PowerShot S2 IS
8. Canon EOS 30D
9. Sony CYBERSHOT
10. Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL

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Update: Michael and Cassidy point out "the Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT and CANON EOS 350D DIGITAL are one in the same camera: The first moniker is used for the US market, the latter for Europe."

Update 2: Ananthanarayanan question's the author's assumption that all Sony Cybershot pictures were taken with different cameraphones: "I have a Sony Cybershot DSC-H2 and have a handful of pictures up on Flickr. I went to my Flickr page to check on my own pictures. And I found that the EXIF data as stored by Flickr do mention the exact camera model, i.e. Sony DSC H2. So was this data analyzed and all Sony camera data points just merged into one set to make sure it made the top 10? Are we missing something here?"

Update 3: Tim sez, "Flagrantdisregard (which host numerous Flickr toys) has had a link for a WEEKLY posting of Flickr's camera ranks for a while now. You can go deeper and even see graphs!"