Right on cue, CIPA has released its latest report, showing how camera shipments in March were affected by the rapid spread of the coronavirus, and the economic shutdown that followed. No surprises here: the numbers are grim.
In keeping with what we saw from both BCN and Stackline data, camera shipments plummeted in March. BCN […]. petapixel.com
Japanese firm BCN Retail released its camera sales report for March, and the numbers are undeniably grim. In Japan, mirrorless camera sales dropped by over 50% year-over-year in March, with little reason to believe they’ll rebound in the coming months. petapixel.com »
2020-04-13 19:59
As we have all heard by now, the camera market seems to be in somewhat of a free fall. In the first two months of the year the interchangeable lens camera sales held steady in the month of January, but it took a sizable hit in the month of February, with shipments down by 29. thephoblographer.com »
2019-04-30 16:00
I just got this from a reliable source. He heard about a new Sony RX camera launch in late March. But this isn’t going to be the RX0II (which is coming too). This will be a new fixed lens camera with optical zoom. sonyalpharumors.com »
2019-03-11 17:44
CIPA has released the camera shipment numbers for March 2018 today and there are some interesting things going on with ILC’s. Canon News has done their usual great breakdown of the numbers, so I don’t really need to do the same thing. canonrumors.com »
2018-05-01 16:49
If there was one word to describe 2022's camera sales trends so far, it would be "pivotal." When I say pivotal, I mean it to say that it seems as if a switch has been flipped and the market has turned on its head. [Read More]
The year 2020 saw digital camera shipments nosedive to a new low of 8. 9 million units, down from 121 million units in 2010. It was believed it couldn't get any worse and, indeed, shipments stabilized in 2021.
Doom-and-gloom stories of the state of the camera market have been pretty common over the past year due to COVID-19. But what if the data used to determine the health of the industry was flawed? Before we can get into why this might be the case, we have to first look at the information that […]
After years of declining sales figures and the requisite reporting on the industry’s “imminent” collapse, it seems the camera market has finally plateaued. The latest CIPA numbers show modest growth in some areas and neutral numbers elsewhere, hinting that a long sales slump might finally be over. Every quarter, the trade body CIPA (Camera & […]