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.
BCN Ranking aggregates point-of-sale data from consumer electronics retailers across Japan to get its […]. petapixel.com
Japan Camera Hunter has revealed its latest one-off repainted Leica cameras in honor of JCH’s 10th anniversary. As noted by Kosmo Foto, the Sakura-themed Leica M4 has been hand-painted by Kanto, a specialist camera restorer based in Tokyo, Japan. dpreview.com »
2021-10-29 22:24
Here’s some interesting news from the world of film photography: the popular website Japan Camera Hunter is developing a new 35mm premium compact camera — one that may be an analog/digital hybrid. petapixel.com »
2017-09-25 22:36
Canon is planning to open a new camera factory in Japan by 2019 in an effort to move more of its production “back home,” but this time it will be relying more on automation to lower the cost of domestic operations. petapixel.com »
2017-09-02 19:20
Automation makes manufacturing at home more competitive TOKYO — Canon plans to have a new camera plant in Japan up and running by 2019 as it moves more production back home, relying on factory automation to lower the cost of domestic operations. canonrumors.com »
2017-08-31 16:22
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has a robotic ball-shaped camera drone called Int-Ball floating around the International Space Station, and for the first time ever it has released videos and images captured by the camera. dpreview.com »
2017-07-18 20:34
Bic Camera, one of Japan’s largest camera and electronics retailers, will be accepting bitcoin as a payment option in all of its stores across the country. The Nikkei Asian Review reports that Bic Camera began accepting the cryptocurrency in Tokyo locations starting in April 2017 as a test, and is now expanding the payment method […] petapixel.com »
2017-07-12 20:10
For a while, 35mm to 120 Film Adapters have been around though not really very common. Well Japan Camera Hunter has a perfect solution for you in the form of 3D printed little knobs that will work with the 120 cameras that you happen to have. thephoblographer.com »
2017-04-18 16:20
Need your vintage camera gear fix? This video ought to do it. Bellamy Hunt (aka. Japan Camera Hunter) recently met up with former DigitalRev TV host Lok and took a stroll through the I. C. S. vintage camera fair in Ginza, Japan for Photo Gear News. petapixel.com »
2017-03-06 19:59
It's no secret that Japan Camera Hunter Street Pan 400 film has become very popular with street photographers and just those curious about film. It's available in 35mm right now, but Bellamy Hunt, the Japan Camera Hunter himself, tells us that it's coming in 120 and that we should expect it before the end of the year. thephoblographer.com »
2017-02-07 23:04
We know that the analog world is alive and well, and so for that reason I went in to update our review of Japan Camera Hunter Street Pan 400. We're doing this a little differently though: we know that analog still isn't "as popular" as digital photography. So it's being done in a more complex way. thephoblographer.com »
2017-02-06 11:04
I've been playing with more Japan Camera Hunter Street Pan 400 film and shot a scene that I always photograph just to compare what this film and Kodak Tri-X do when rendering a specific scene. thephoblographer.com »
2017-02-04 08:02
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.
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.