CIPA (Camera & Imaging Products Association in Japan) published their latest camera production data (orange: 2024, black: 2023, blue: 2022):
(All comparisons to YTD 2023)
Narrative: July 2024
Highest shipments of the calendar year so far for DSLRs, Mirrorless, Compacts and Lenses for cameras with smaller than 35mm sensors. But cumulatively, DSLR units are down 38% compared to 2023 and lenses for smaller sensors are down 3.2%.
CIPA has predicted 5.89m ILCs, 1.52m compacts and 9.57m lenses for calendar 2024. Based on 2023 shipping patterns, ILC’s could conceivably come in at 5.9-6.5m units. (That’s higher at the low end than we predicted last month). That compares to: