I fall into the two or three photos per month, usually food photos that never gets further than Google Map reviews, although I do occasionally upload to my personal Instagram account quality photos like this:
I’ve printed out my own smartphone photos exactly once; it was for my father-in-law’s funeral, and rather than pay 30,000 yen or so for a professional memorial photo for him, we found one on my smartphone and I printed it off at a nearby convenience store for the grand total of 50 yen, and framed it in a photo frame we found lying about his flat…
Survey results
Q1: Which of the following photographic devices do you have? (Sample size=2,000, multiple answer)
Android smartphone
50.6%
iPhone smartphone
45.1%
Compact digitial camera
42.4%
Tablet
28.7%
Digital SLR, mirrorless SLR
16.3%
Feature phone
14.4%
Film camera
7.7%
Instant camera
6.8%
Q2: Do you take at least one photo per week on the photographic devices you have? (Sample size differs by device)
Device
Take weekly photos
iPhone N=901
75.4%
Android N=1,012
60.9%
Tablet N=574
36.1%
Feature phone N=287
31.0%
Instant camera N=136
27.2%
Film camera N=154
20.1%
Digital SLR, mirrorless SLR N=325
17.8%
Compact digitial camera N=848
11.4%
Q3: Where do you save the photos you take on smartphones? (Sample size=1,717, multiple answer)
Smartphone itself
89.5%
SD card
32.7%
PC hard disk, external disk
29.7%
Cloud
26.8%
CD-ROM, DVD-ROM
13.6%
Picture saving application
12.2%
Q4: How many photos do you have saved on each device? (Sample size differs by device)
Location
Average
PC hard disk, external disk N=510
2,353.6
Cloud N=461
1,663.3
Smartphone itself N=1,536
1,032.9
CD-ROM, DVD-ROM N=234
1,019.6
SD card N=561
924.7
Picture saving application N=210
635.6
The following question was answered by the 1,717 people who answered in an unreported question that they took at least two or three smartphone photos per month. Note that from these 1,717 people 800 were chosen to answer the questions from Q6 onwards.
Q5: Have you ever printed smartphone pictures? (Sample size=1,717)
I’m not quite sure how this sample size is 357; it should be 533, I think.
Q8SQ: How do you tidy up your photos? (Sample size=357, multiple answer)
Delete unneeded data
54.4%
Keep only the good ones from a batch of similar photos
33.4%
Move photos to somewhere with more space
32.1%
Move important photos to a more permanent location
16.1%
Print out photos and delete the data
9.0%
Other
0.4%
Demographics
Between the 5th and 7th of February 2021 2,000 members of the MMD Labo monitor group aged between 15 and 69 years old completed a private internet-based questionnaire. Furthermore, from Q6 onwards, 800 people from the original sample who took at least two or three smartphone photos per week were chosen for further questions.
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