CIPA (Camera & Imaging Products Association in Japan) published their July report and the downturn continues – the total number of shipped digital cameras is lower compared to the same month in previous years (orange: 2019, black: 2018, blue: 2017, click for larger view): DSLR Units -36% DSLR Shipped Value -45% Mirrorless Units -14% Mirrorless Shipped […]
In case you missed my post on PhotoRumors – the final CIPA 2018 numbers are in (see also the latest financial reports recap):
Here are the results from the Nikon mirrorless camera poll: Also – the 2017 CIPA camera shipment report is out: The 2017 CIPA camera shipment report is out I will let you make your own conclusions, because you already know mine…
Nikon is not the only camera manufacturer that is currently having problems (see the latest rumors about Panasonic and Ricoh). The overall camera and lens markets have shrunk significantly compared to a few years ago, but the latest data shows some signs of improvement (I usually cover the monthly CIPA reports over at PhotoRumors). Here is […]
As a part of the discussion in my last post I went to CIPA’s website and got the numbers of units produced for DSLR and mirrorless cameras in the past four years and plugged them into a graph (blue: DSLR, green: mirrorless, click for larger view): There are many different conclusions you can make out of this […]
Last week Sony published an entire press release describing how successful their mirrorless offering is. There is no doubt that Sony has done a lot in a short period of time, but this is mainly because (I think) they remained unchallenged by the major players (Nikon and Canon). CIPA published their data for April and […]
A while back CIPA introduced a new standard for image stabilization that will make it easier to compare the IS/VR effectiveness between different lenses/cameras and manufacturers. Today Nikon published a new Nikkor lens VR performance table according to the new CIPA standards:
