CIPA (Camera & Imaging Products Association in Japan) published their latest camera production data (orange: 2025, black: 2024, blue: 2023):
Narrative: November 2025
November 2025 CIPA numbers by ZoetMB
(All comparisons to YTD 2024)
CIPA has predicted 6.66m ILCs, 1.1.92m compacts and 10.56m lenses for calendar 2025, a modest increase over 2024. We’re currently projecting between 6.93m and 6.98m ILC units. That’s down from last month’s prediction.
November 2025 shipments are down from October 2025 (but that’s normal for November since holiday shipments are over) and up from November 2024, except for DSLRs and APS-C lenses.
For the first eleven months of 2025:
- DSLR’s are down 29% in units and 34% in shipped value,
- Mirrorless units are up 11% in units and 2% in shipped value.
- Compacts are up 29% in units and 49% in shipped value.
- Lenses for smaller than 35mm sensors are up 7% in units and 18% in shipped value and lenses for 35mm and larger sensors are down 4% in units and down 6% in shipped value.
- The lens to body sales ratio has dropped to 1.52 compared to 1.56 a year ago.
