WebProNews reports good news for digital camera makers: it looks like camera phones
aren't hurting sales of digital cameras. A new survey from IDC shows that cell phone cameras are not replacing digital cameras, despite what some gloomy forecasters were saying. In fact, the opposite seems to be happening: people buy a camera phone, decide they like digital photography and then go buy a digital camera (one that actually takes decent-looking pictures).
More than 30% of the camera phone owners surveyed said that they plan to purchase a digital camera because they got into digital photography from camera phones.
The survey was aimed toward owners of camera phones in the United States, and inquired about the amount of images one captures, deletes, prints, and archives with their phone.
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The survey also showed that the biggest imaging activity camera phone owners participate in is archiving the images and sharing them through email.
