BCNretail posted an interesting article. Sony ZV camera sales BOOMED and now account for 48. 4% of the sales volume (number of cameras) and 22. 9% of the sales value (total of earnings in the camera business).
This means the new ZV-E1 and the new ZV-1II are selling extremely well. Here is the Google translated text from…. sonyalpharumors.com
Last month, the Camera & Imaging Products Association (CIPA) released its 2016 report detailing yearly trends in camera shipments. Using that data, photographer Sven Skafisk has created a graph that makes it easy to visualize the data, namely the major growth in smartphone sales over the past few years and the apparent impact it has had on dedicated camera sales. dpreview.com »
2017-03-07 00:51
Things aren’t looking good for the standalone point-and-shoot camera. As smartphone cameras continue to improve, compact camera sales continue to nosedive. A new historical sales chart with 2016 figures shows just how quickly point-and-shoots are dying off. petapixel.com »
2017-03-03 20:56
Mirrorlessrumors shared the 2016 Japanese market shares report. In the mirrorless system camera segment Sony lost 8% sales share compared to 2015. This isn’t surprising as in 2016 Sony had “only” two new APS-C E-mount cameras (A6300 and A6500). sonyalpharumors.com »
2017-01-16 12:08
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Chris from ThePhoBlographer reports about a short discussion with Sony he had on one of the past Kando trips: Engineers asked me about the RX1R and what I’d want to see in a camera like that. This was Chris answer: The camera would need a new lens because Sony and Zeiss don’t work so closely…
Just recentlz I told zou that Topaz has completely redone the website for their AI software. Chekc out the new pages at Photo Ai, Video AI, GigaPixel AI. And now we got updates: Photo Ai Full changelog since version 3.
Just recently Sony officially discontinued the RX1rII. And now they have no camera that can compete against the hot selling Leica Q3 and Fujifilm X100VI. And it looks like the first company that could enter the booming market is Panasonic.
The Chinese E-commerce platform JD. com released its report on brand sales in the camera and lens category in the past year: UPDATE: The grey subtitle on the top left says “unit: million yuan”.
Our reader Vladimir Belohradsky developed this new New Alpha Remote Controller you can get on the iOS App store. He was kind enough to send me a video to quickly show how it works on your Apple Watch.
Tamron Q1 financial report has been published. The operating Income increased significantly by approximately 1.7 times YoY with Significant record-high profits for the 1st quarter. Tamron writes: Interchangeable lenses market showed double-digit growth on both volume and value basis, reflecting the strong performance of the camera market. Those are their sales based on the region:…