In Taiwan, 92.9% of people who take pictures at general occasions use digital cameras, while 56.9% use cell phone cameras and 13.6% use conventional cameras, according to a survey of 520 Internet users aged 15-35 conducted by the Taiwan-based market research company InsightXplorer during August 7-11 of this year.
Of the surveyed Internet users, 97.3% have taken a photo during an event like sightseeing, a family gathering or celebration, InsightXplorer indicated. While PC hard disks are the most common type of image storage device, 77.9% of those surveyed, including those who have never taken pictures, have personal on-line photo albums.
| Picture-taking Internet users: Frequency and type of image storage | |||
| Frequency of taking pictures | Proportion | Most frequently used device | Proportion |
| Every day or almost every day | 11.5% | PC hard disks | 63.5% |
| 1-5 days a week | 37.3% | On-line photo albums | 17.1% |
| 2-3 times a month | 27.4% | Photo prints | 10.0% |
| Once a month | 6.0% | Camera memory | 7.1% |
| Less than once a month | 17.8% | On-line hard disks or others | 2.3% |
Source: InsightXplorer, compiled by DigiTimes.com, September 2006.
| Top five web sites providing on-line photo album service | |
| Photo album web site | Proportion* of all owners of |
| Wretch | 59.5% |
| Yahoo! Kimo | 46.7% |
| PChome Online | 34.3% |
| MSN Space | 34.3% |
| Xuite | 24.2% |
*A person may use two or more web sites to store photos.
Source: InsightXplorer, compiled by DigiTimes.com, September 2006.
Article translated by Adam Hwang and edited by Eric Mah
