More and more people are taking pictures with their smartphones and leaving their digital cameras behind.
More pictures than ever are being taken today, even as sales of traditional digital cameras are dropping. What’s behind this conundrum? It’s the influx of smartphones with built-in cameras; smartphone users are ditching their standalone cameras and shooting pics with their phone cameras, instead.

Sales of compact digital cameras (so-called ”point-and-shoot” cameras) fell by 30% in 2011, and are continued to keep falling. Research shows that 45% of consumers use their smartphones to shoot photos, while only 40% use a dedicated digital camera. Flickr, the big photo-sharing site, says that the top three cameras used for photos on its site aren’t cameras at all, they’re the iPhone 4, 4S, and 5. It’s fast becoming a world of phone photography.

A report released earlier this year points out that there are 5.2 Billion mobile phones on the planet for a population of 4.3 Billion users (yes, some people have multiple phones).  83% of all phones have cameras. The survey cites that 90% of all people who take pictures have only done so on a camera phone.