Hey! We bring you the first ever review of the top cameras and camera phones on itasveer.com.
While 65% of our traffic is from India, much of the remaining is from the Indian diaspora, thus this is probably one of the first statistical analyses on camera usage from an India centric perspective.
So, without further ado, here’s what we found.
For those who want a quick summary: Sony and Canon are the top camera brands with more than 50% of itasveer members using them. The top Point & Shoot model is the Sony Cyber-shot DSC W5, the top DSLR is the Canon EOS 350D and the top camera phone is the Sony Ericsson K750i. About 10% of users uploaded images clicked from a camera phone on to itasveer.com
For those who love graphs and charts and more data, here are the details. [Warning: This is a long post, but with lots of tasty graphs and charts.]
The Top Brands
Canon and Sony are the most widely used brands on itasveer.com with as much as 50% of our members using them. Noteworthy is that a surprising 10% of our users use cameraphones and Nokia and Sony Ericsson figure in the top 10 brands.
The Top Camera Models
The Sony DSC W5 is the most widely used camera on itasveer.com. Interestingly, the Sony Ericsson K750i figures in the top three! Canon EOS 350D is the most used DSLR camera. Animesh, the photography aficionado among us also owns the 350D and swears by it (which, by the way, did not lead to any skewness in the data :)).
The Top Cameras by brand
We also thought it would be useful to list the top 3 cameras, both Point & Shoot and DSLRs for our top camera brands. These are the Sony Cyber-Shot DSC W5, Canon Powershot S2 IS and the Nikon E4600 in the case of Point & Shoot and Canon 350D and Nikon D50 in the case of DSLRs. For your reference, we have also added the camera’s rank within its brand on flickr.com in brackets next to the camera model. (Click to enlarge)
The Top Cameraphones
Finally, the top camera phones in general, and also by brand on itasveer.com. After the Sony Ericsson K750i which figures in the top across all kinds of cameras, it’s Nokia all the way with the N70 being the most popular cameraphone from the Nokia stable.
Methodology
The data used for the analysis is actual data from itasveer.com for the period April 2006 to August 2007. The top cameras have been evaluated based on the number of users using a camera model. The model is automatically detected from the photo’s EXIF data, however, this is not possible for about 10% of the images uploaded on itasveer.com which haven’t been included in the analysis.
So let us know what you guys think! Which are your favorite cameras?
September 5th, 2007
Posted by Ashish
We were making a pretty much regulation (bug fixes) release today, and we kept running into problems. So sorry about the frequent “itasveer is out on a coffee break” page. All batch uploads also got turned off during that time!! Also, users might have experienced a 20 minute outage yesterday night, we moved our DNS servers to new ones, and it seems we were impatient in updating that in our system, which translated into unwanted outage :(. Our sincere apologies for the trouble.
BTW the new release has some speed optimizations, so itasveer should feel zippier. Doodlepad has cut down on its already feather light weight (it has gone down from 225kb to 200kb) and is better than ever. So you’all.. keep the feedback coming :)
Update: We’re still facing some issues it seems, we’re trying hard to get things back to speed.
Update (late in the night now) : We’re finally looking good. Spent our whole day figuring out what was wrong with our Mysql server. Turns out it was a DNS resolution problem and had been lurking there for quite some time!
September 4th, 2007
Posted by Animesh
15th August has a special significance for us. Of course, one reason is that it’s the anniversary of India’s independence :D, but also because our first promotional campaign was structured around 15th August. We came up with these (somewhat serious) posters, and had them plastered around colleges, markets and sent out as emailers.
This time around we have decided to sweeten up the freedom celebrations by offering Free shipping on all orders at itasveer.com. And by all orders, we mean all orders: even if you buy 1 print, you can get free shipping.
(Oh, just one thing though: you can’t couple this with another offer. So for e.g. you can’t get 10 free prints (which we offer on sign-up) and also free shipping.)
Just use the coupon code ‘FREEDOM‘ on the Shopping Cart page when placing an order before checkout.
August 10th, 2007
Posted by Ashish
There are new Doodlepad features in town. Here’s a rundown of the features and how to use them.
Copy/Paste:
You can now and copy and paste items in the Doodlepad with ease. Any colors, effects, fonts etc. are preserved. Use the Copy Paste buttons, or choose from the right click menu.
Crop:
Put your images into interesting shapes! Select an image and click on ‘Crop Photo’. Pick from a square, circle, star or splash shape to crop your image. In this example we picked the star shape!
Shadows and Borders:
You can add borders and shadows to your photos now. See what the above photo looks like with a shadow and a border added!
We added a shadow first.
Then we added a 5 width white border (also changed the background color to make it more visible).
Cool eh?
Tint and B&W Effects:
Last, but definitely not the least you can also add B&W and tint effects to your image!
So, that’s all for now, stay tuned for more!
Meanwhile, gO DoOdLE! :D
(By the way, there are even more reasons to Doodle - we have launched four new products: Large Mugs, Stainless Steel Travel Mugs, Mousepads and Collages (Posters) and there is a 20% introductory discount on all these. Use the coupon code NEWPRODS to avail)
July 27th, 2007
Posted by Nishant
Do you know what these are?
These are Themes! Yes, we gave a facelift to your shared photo pages on itasveer.com - and they now come in four cool flavors. 
You can see a couple of sample shared pages here and here.
To set a theme for your page, go to your Shared Settings page.
Your shared photos will henceforth be living in much sexier locales.
Besides, we have also introduced better comment management - You can now view all your recent comments in one place when you log in.
Plus, there are bunch of other tiny, but useful improvements such as titles for your Shared Pages, Album Descriptions, A list view for your albums, and the facility to email your shared page link straight from your shared settings page.
So, we think the photo sharing experience on itasveer.com is now significantly better - what do you think? And what else do you guys want? Let us know.
PS: The Facebook Blues theme is a tribute to Facebook - arguably one of the best web products ever!
July 12th, 2007
Posted by Ashish
Do you guys use Flickr?
Well, If you do, we have some awesome news for you.
We recently introduced a feature using which you can import your Flickr photos into itasveer - no need to upload them again!
So now you can do a lot more with your Flickr photos. Get photo prints from them or use them in the itasveer Doodlepad to create some kickass designs and put them on T-Shirts and Mugs!
Also you don’t need a Flickr Pro account to use this feature. Every Flickr user can! The only limitation is that for free Flickr accounts good quality photo prints would be available in sizes 5″x7″ or less. But there is no limitation on Tees and Mugs - so go ahead and doodle up some great designs.
Just look for the Flickr tab on your photos page to get started.
Here’s a 5 minute video on how it works. Or you can read the FAQs here.
May 22nd, 2007
Posted by Ashish
Warning: Self-congratulatory gibberish ahead :)
We have some great news to share with you. PC World Magazine in their May 2007 issue have adjudged us as the Best Indian Website in the category Photo Printing. Their star jury panel have reviewed some 126 websites in 20 categories such as Travel, Matrimony, Entertainment, News etc. and picked the best based on Technology, Design, Usability and Content. We are rather pleased to be in the company of stalwarts like Monster, Rediff, Ebay and others.
This is what they have to say about us.
“iTasveer espouses a very clean and focused approach while providing a highly user-friendly and structured interface…its very interesting Doodlepad application lets you create interesting graphics and that be used on mugs and t-shirts, and can be ordered off the website.”
We are honored indeed (And have made this cheeky graphic to pat ourselves on our backs a little more).
And dear users - feel free to disagree, differ and point us out where we might have stumbled - so that we can make your itasveer experience even better.
ALSO:
May is here - which means time for our next monthly special! All this month enjoy a 15% discount on T-Shirts with the coupon code MAYSPECIAL.
May 8th, 2007
Posted by Ashish
When we put DoodlePad together, Ashish used to call our mug preview ‘chaude kaan waala aadmi‘ (a guy with broad ears). And yes, that’s precisely how it looked. So the challenge was, make Mugs in DoodlePad look like mugs.
So, with the latest release, DoodlePad now features a three-side view of your design put on mugs. Here’s what we’re talking about,
A brief about how it’s done. The problem at hand here is, cylindrical transform for a flat image or wrapping an image around a cylinder shape (the mug in our case). Going through a lot of existing 3D texturing libraries for Flash, we found they were a little too heavy for what we needed. So we decided to do it on our own. This was accomplished by splitting the image into a large number of vertical strips and placing them at coordinates calculated using simple coordinate geometry. The larger the number of strips, the better is the preview but slower is the performance. Larger number of strips also makes the job simpler as we don’t have to worry about skewing the strips, since the width and hence the skew gets negligible.
That’s it for the jargon. Hope it helps somebody.
For all our dear users and users-to-be, Happy Designing :)
April 17th, 2007
Posted by Nishant
Clockwise from top left: Nishant, Ankit, Animesh, Ashish
Half freaks - half geeks !
April 16th, 2007
Posted by Animesh
Hey everyone. Summer’s round the corner this side of the planet, and we figured we could cool it off a bit by introducing monthly specials at itasveer - great offers month after month.
This April enjoy 25% discount on large sized photo prints i.e. 6″ x 8″, 8″ x 10″ and 8″ x 12″. Use the coupon code APRILSPECIAL on the Shopping Cart.
Watch out this space for more. Happy Shopping!
April 6th, 2007
Posted by Ashish
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