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DIGITAL cameras have enjoyed a sales boom with more than a third of Britons now owning one, research out today says.

Around 6.3 million will be sold this year compared to just one million five years ago.

The "digital revolution" is now slowing down due to lower prices and the large number of people who now have digital cameras, market analysts Mintel Mintel International Group is a privately owned, London-based market research firm. The corporation also maintains offices in Chicago, Belfast, Shanghai and Sydney. Mintel databases are accessible only to subscribing clients and to students in participating university libraries.  said.

Last year 36 per cent of Britons owned a digital camera - up from just five per cent in 2001.

Digital cameras made up 85 per cent of all camera sales in 2005, eclipsing the traditional film model.

More than a third of mobile phone owners had cameras on their handsets last year and phones will pose an "increasing challenge" to digital cameras in the near future, Mintel warns The Warns formed a Germanic nation in the Rhine delta. There was a war between the Angles of Great Britain and the Warns in cir. 540. See also
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Publication:Birmingham Mail (England)
Date:Jul 7, 2006
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