The survey looks at several categories of devices including DSLRs, Mirrorless System Cameras with interchangeable lenses, superzooms, compact cameras, and personal camcorders. In this month's PCMag Readers' Choice Survey, we help you choose which brand of camera or camcorder to choose based upon your fellow readers' feedback. If you shoot a lot, offload the work to a dedicated camera or camcorder it will keep your smartphone running that much longer between charges. One of the biggest reasons for a dedicated camera may also be one of the most mundane: shooting lots of photos and videos on your phone drains the battery and fills the storage, fast. The zooms and interchangeable lenses on digital cameras and camcorders let you get in nice and tight or go very wide (depending on the model, of course). Smartphones don't have zoom lenses you may think you're zooming but you're really digitally cropping what you capture. The larger sensors in DSLRs (digital single-lens reflex), mirrorless system cameras, and high-end compacts provide higher image quality than a smartphone. There are several good reasons why you should still use a camera or camcorder. But despite the smartphone's popularity, many still opt for a dedicated digital camera or camcorder. They've become the camera of choice for most people. They make it incredibly easy to shoot and share photos and videos. The primary driver behind these astounding statistics is smartphones. That's a lot of memories being created to view over and over. Video has some impressive stats of its own: according to ReelSEO, more than 300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute (Opens in a new window). That number is astounding in and of itself, but perhaps equally incredible is that it represents a 50 percent increase over the number of photos created just two years ago (Opens in a new window). How to Set Up Two-Factor AuthenticationĪccording to research firm InfoTrends, the human race will shoot one trillion photos in 2015.

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