More than one-half of Japanese consumers say they take pictures with their camera phones several times a week, according to the Mobile Imaging and Printing Consortium.

One-fifth of female high school students said they took pictures with their phones every day.

Many Japanese consumers (40%) said that they used digital cameras for special occasions and major events and camera phones for snapshots.

Camera-phone photographers do like print copies of some of their work. Four in 10 consumers said they had printed out pictures taken with their camera phones. More than one-half of working women and grandmothers said they had done so.

About 40% of respondents surveyed said that there were photos they had taken by camera phone that they would like to print.