Michael Cooney
Senior Editor

Digicam facts to wow your (nerdy) friends

Opinion
Aug 31, 20051 min

Despite the rise of home photo printers – and their subsequent price drop – the trend in digital photo printing is shifting from the home to retail locations. And we’d guess that’s much to the relief of places like Wal-Mart, CVS and the like.

“While one-third of digital camera owners never print, over 10% print every image they keep,” noted Chris Chute, senior analyst.

Research wonks IDC, the number-crunching sibling of NW, also notes the following:

  • The mean number of digital images captured per month is 75.
  • 14% of total digital camera owner respondents capture more than 100 images per month.
  • 15% of total respondents never delete any images, while 6% delete all their images.

Wait, who in their right mind would never delete any image – even bad ones? Oh, we know.