CIPA (Camera & Imaging Products Association in Japan) published their latest camera production data (orange: 2024, black: 2023, blue: 2022):
September 2024 CIPA numbers by ZoetMB
(All comparisons to YTD 2023)
Narrative: September 2024
Highest shipments of the calendar year so far for all categories (probably getting ready for holiday buying). Cumulatively, DSLR units are down 21% compared to 2023. Everything else is up.
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 6.3-6.4m units. (That’s higher at the low end than we predicted last month but lower at the high end).
That compares to:
