The camera industry may finally be stabilizing according to new data published by the Camera and Imaging Products Association (CIPA), as 2021 has is off to its best start since 2017. Since around the fall of last year, shipping data from CIPA was following a particular trend: while volume numbers were down, the value of […]
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“Abandon hope all ye who enter here” is the supposed inscription at the entrance to Hell (Divina Commedia – Dante Alighieri). And all camera manufacturers must feel the same right now: The latest CIPA data certifies that camera unit shipments fell 22% this year. sonyalpharumors.com »
2019-02-10 15:56
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. canonrumors.com »
2018-05-01 16:49
CIPA released the 2017 camera shipment numbers based on actual Japanese companies data. MirrorlessRumors analysis: 1) For the first time in many years the last year wasn’t worse than the year before. sonyalpharumors.com »
2018-02-06 16:51
Graph: CIPA The Japanese Camera & Imaging Products Association (CIPA) has released its numbers for November 2017, and they don't make for pleasant reading. In short: the downward trend in the digital camera market continues, with only 2,166,788 DSC units shipped in November 2017, or approximately 17% percent lower than the previous year. dpreview.com »
2018-01-08 20:15
Graph: CIPA The Camera & Imaging Products Association (CIPA) has released its statistics for October 2017, and in contrast to previous years, we did not see the Black Friday/Thanksgiving induced spike we're used to seeing, with month-to-month shipments remaining fairly flat (read: disappointing). dpreview.com »
2017-12-04 22:13
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
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
CIPA released the latest November camera shipment data. It shows that the interchangeable camera shipments didn’t decrease compared to 2015. This might be finally a sign that the four-year long fall in camera sales might soon be over. sonyalpharumors.com »
2017-01-14 14:37
Fujifilm, Nikon, and Sony all released second-quarter financial results for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2025, offering a look at the overall health of the imaging industry. [Read More]
Japanese retail analyst firm BCN+R recently investigated the rapidly changing video camera market and has now set its sights on the compact camera segment, asking, "Is the compact camera dead?" [Read More]
Sony is offering discounts of up to $600 off for cameras and $200 off for lenses.
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Sony Electronics developed a custom camera especially for the filming of the upcoming F1 movie which effectively untethers the body of the camera from the sensor. [Read More]
In Sony's 2024 Corporate Report, the company explains the performance of all its sectors, including its camera business. Sony has claimed yet again that it has achieved the number one market share in the full-frame interchangeable lens market. [Read More]
We have yet again encountered a unique time of the month: camera sales ranking! This time, Map Camera (first reported by Digicame-Infor), one of Japan's biggest camera stores, has revealed the list.
With 20 years in the photo industry and 15 years running the Phoblographer, I can say with authenticity a few very valid statements about Nikon. Like a silver or bronze medalist that everyone forgets about, they've always believed that they should wear gold.