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Nikon is still at the #3 spot (2025 mirrorless camera production volume ranking)

I already reported on the 2025 digital camera shipment market share from the latest Nikkei Industry Report: 2025 digital camera shipment market share Fujifilm’s surge is attributed to strong demand for compact cameras. The 2025 numbers for Fujifilm provided in the report also include the Fujifilm X-half toy camera, the Instax product line, and the very popular […]

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Nikon achieves top market share in Japan for the first time with the release of the Z5II camera

Nikon achieved top market share in Japan for the first time with the release of the Z5II mirrorless full-frame camera (Nikon has been gaining market share for a while – see previous reports): “In April, Nikon won the monthly top share for the first time in terms of sales volume of full-frame mirrorless cameras. In […]

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The latest Nikon market share in Japan according to BCN: Nikon is moving up

The latest 2025 BCN Awards for the Japanese market are out (BCN collects sales data from approximately 2/3 of all Japanese retail stores). Here is the latest Nikon ranking: Digital cameras SLR Canon 69.4% Nikon 20.9% (was 17.1% before) Ricoh 9.7% Digital mirrorless single-lens cameras Sony 35.8% Canon 26% Nikon 14.5% (not in the top […]

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Yahoo Japan: “Z mount suddenly rises to second place in interchangeable lenses, finally escaping from regular single-digit share”

Yahoo Japan (translation) published an article called “Z mount suddenly rises to second place in interchangeable lenses, finally escaping from regular single-digit share“. Here is a quote from the article:

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Nikon gaining back market share in Japan thanks to the Z8 camera

The Japanese BCN retail ranking published an article called “Nikon rises to 3rd place in the mirrorless market, with the release of the Z8” (Google translated): “Nikon ‘s market share is steadily increasing in mirrorless single-lens cameras . The sales share by manufacturer in May 2023 will be 12.9%. It overtook OM Digital Solutions (former […]

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Interesting: the same number of Nikon Z, Canon RF, and Fujifilm X lenses were sold in Japan last month

BCN Ranking released a new report on the latest sales data for the Japanese market – it is interesting that the same number of Nikon Z, Canon RF, and Fujifilm X interchangeable lenses were sold at the end of last year in Japan (click for larger view):

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BCN Ranking published 2020 Japanese camera market share report

BCN Ranking released their 2020 Japanese camera market share report (not worldwide!). BCN Ranking collects real sales data only from approximately 40% of the Japanese retailers. The Nikon related numbers: Nikon point and shoot camera share went down (no longer in the top three, was #1 last year) Nikon DSLR camera share went up by more than […]

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