Japanese retail analyst BCN+R released a new report showing that consumer electronics, including cameras, experienced a huge boom during 2024, especially at the very end of the year. [Read More]
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Newswitch reports that camera sales are now particularly strong in China. While sales are decreasing in terms of unit numbers the average price increased and does positively affect the overall sales value (see graph). sonyalpharumors.com »
2023-11-30 15:49
The news of falling camera shipments is like the dripping of a faucet. It comes with a regular, steady, beat, and just when you think it has stopped... plink, there it goes again! So perhaps it's no surprise that CIPA -- the trade body for manufacturers -- has a downbeat forecast for 2022, but strangely seems to have missed the good news! [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-03-03 21:45
As the coronavirus pandemic brings the world economy to its knees, retail intelligence firm Stackline put together a report identifying the 100 fastest growing and 100 fastest declining industries based on e-commerce data from March. petapixel.com »
2020-04-21 22:21
All eyes have been firmly planted on cameras sales ever since Canon came out and said that they expect the camera market to decline rapidly in the coming years. While recent numbers from CIPA (Camera & Imaging Products Association) do seem to suggest that Canon might be on to something, the data for May 2019 indicates that in some parts of the world, camera sales are not only holding steady compared to last year, but that camera sales have improved. Join us after the break to take a peek at the numbers. thephoblographer.com »
2019-07-19 13:00
All eyes have been firmly planted on cameras sales ever since Canon came out and said that they expect the camera market to decline rapidly in the coming years. While recent numbers from CIPA (Camera & Imaging Products Association) do seem to suggest that Canon might be on to something, the data for May 2019 indicates that in some parts of the world, camera sales are not only holding steady compared to last year, but that camera sales have improved. Join us after the break to take a peek at the numbers. thephoblographer.com »
2019-07-19 13:00
After years of declining sales figures and the requisite reporting on the industry’s “imminent” collapse, it seems the camera market has finally plateaued. The latest CIPA numbers show modest growth in some areas and neutral numbers elsewhere, hinting that a long sales slump might finally be over. Every quarter, the trade body CIPA (Camera & […] petapixel.com »
2017-05-03 21:59
CIPA has released their sales numbers for the first quarter of 2017 and the news is better than we’ve seen over the last couple of years. The sales if interchangeable lens cameras (Mirrorless & DSLR) saw a 6% increase over the same quarter in 2016. canonrumors.com »
2017-05-03 13:45
Canon's recent acquisition of Toshiba's medical equipment unit has helped spur strong first fiscal quarterly financial results for the camera company, and as a result it has increased its full 2017 operating profit forecast. dpreview.com »
2017-04-26 23:40
Last month, the Camera & Imaging Products Association (CIPA) released its 2016 report detailing yearly trends in camera shipments. Using that data, photographer Sven Skafisk has created a graph that makes it easy to visualize the data, namely the major growth in smartphone sales over the past few years and the apparent impact it has had on dedicated camera sales. dpreview.com »
2017-03-07 00:51
Things aren’t looking good for the standalone point-and-shoot camera. As smartphone cameras continue to improve, compact camera sales continue to nosedive. A new historical sales chart with 2016 figures shows just how quickly point-and-shoots are dying off. petapixel.com »
2017-03-03 20:56
Mirrorlessrumors shared the 2016 Japanese market shares report. In the mirrorless system camera segment Sony lost 8% sales share compared to 2015. This isn’t surprising as in 2016 Sony had “only” two new APS-C E-mount cameras (A6300 and A6500). sonyalpharumors.com »
2017-01-16 12:08
Sony announced last week that it was the number one mirrorless brand holding the highest market share for eight years straight. Canon then followed this up by claiming that it was the number one digital camera company, also leading on mirrorless market share.
In what is perhaps the best good news for the camera world in 2020, BCN Ranking out of Japan found that October was remarkably strong for mirrorless camera sales, outperforming the previous year’s level for the first time in 14 months.
The Camera and Imaging Products Association in Japan, otherwise known as CIPA, has published global camera and lens production data through September of this year, and the results show that the industry clearly has taken a hit from the global coronavirus pandemic.
Japanese firm BCN Retail released its camera sales report for March, and the numbers are undeniably grim. In Japan, mirrorless camera sales dropped by over 50% year-over-year in March, with little reason to believe they’ll rebound in the coming months.