CIPA has released their statistics for January of 2025. CIPA is an organization that maintains records from all the Japanese camera manufacturers as far as their production and shipments. CIPA provides an accurate look at the Japanese camera manufacturers, including what is being shipped out, and to where.
CIPA has released the camera shipment numbers for March 2018 today and there are some interesting things going on with ILC’s. Canon News has done their usual great breakdown of the numbers, so I don’t really need to do the same thing.
Having just posted CanonNew’s analysis and breakdown of the CIPA results, I really don’t know what to write here on Canon Rumors. If you want to really see what I say about the data, go over to CanonNews.
CIPA statistics were released for January today, and at first glance it looks like things took a turn for the worst. Total unit shipments were down across the board with only 80.6% shipping on January 2018 versus January 2017, and digital stills cameras as a whole including compacts was 71.8% of January 2017’s volume. While Read more...
The final camera shipment numbers for 2017 are in and the year may show we’ve bottomed out in total shipments. 2017 saw an increase in total camera shipments, though 2016 was affected by the Kumamoto earthquake which caused supply chain issues for a lot of manufacturers.
CIPA has released its camera sales statistics for October 2017, and the numbers may be a disappointment to some companies. Year-over-year total shipments for cameras in October are down 13%, but between the months of January 2017, through October 2017, we have an increase of 6% for ILC cameras, so we should likely wait to Read more...
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.