世論 What Japan Thinks

japan.internet.com recently reported on a survey conducted by goo Research into digital camera storage issues.

Demographics

1,080 members of goo Research’s online monitor group successfully completed a private internet-based survey between the 20th and 21st of April 2007. 51.9% of the sample was male, 17.1% in their teens, 19.8% in their twenties, 17.8% in their thirties, 17.6% in their forties, 17.0% in their fifties, and 10.6% aged sixty or older.

My current photo store comes to around 10 gigabytes, with most of it backed up to CD. I was suprised by the large number of people using external hard disks, but with prices dropping I suppose it makes for rapid and flexible backup when compared to CDs or DVDs.

Research results

Q1: Excluding ones attached to mobile phones, do you have a digital still camera? (Sample size=1,080)

Yes, have own digital still camera (to SQs)	60.1%
Yes, have shared family digital still camera	27.9%
No, don’t have a digital still camera	12.0%

Within the 950 people who had access to a digital camera, the most popular spec was 5 to 8 megapixels, with 357 people, or 37.6%, having one. Next was 3 to 5 megapixels, with 329, 34.6%, having that size. The number of owners of digital SLR (single lens reflex) cameras was 83, or 8.7% of those with digital cameras.

Q1SQ1: About how much stored photographic image data (taken by self or family) do you have? (Sample size=650)

	Votes	Percentage
Up to 1 gigabyte	98	15.1%
1 to 5 gigabytes	114	17.5%
5 to 50 gigabytes	118	18.2%
50 to 100 gigabytes	39	6.0%
Over 100 gigabytes	31	4.8%
Don’t know	249	38.4%

50.8% backed up their data to two different types of media, and 3.2% backed up to three or more!

Q1SQ2: How do you back up this data? (Sample size=351, multiple answer)

	Votes	Percentage
CD	122	34.8%
External hard disk	105	29.9%
DVD	98	27.9%
Internal hard disk	81	23.1%
MO disk	14	4.0%
Zip disk	2	0.6%
Other	17	4.8%