Newswitch reports that camera sales are now particularly strong in China. While sales are decreasing in terms of unit numbers the average price increased and does positively affect the overall sales value (see graph).
Newswitch reports: The camera market is on a recovery trend. Demand in China, which can be said to be the driving force,…. sonyalpharumors.com
The news of falling camera shipments is like the dripping of a faucet. It comes with a regular, steady, beat, and just when you think it has stopped... plink, there it goes again! So perhaps it's no surprise that CIPA -- the trade body for manufacturers -- has a downbeat forecast for 2022, but strangely seems to have missed the good news! [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-03-03 21:45
As the coronavirus pandemic brings the world economy to its knees, retail intelligence firm Stackline put together a report identifying the 100 fastest growing and 100 fastest declining industries based on e-commerce data from March. petapixel.com »
2020-04-21 22:21
All eyes have been firmly planted on cameras sales ever since Canon came out and said that they expect the camera market to decline rapidly in the coming years. While recent numbers from CIPA (Camera & Imaging Products Association) do seem to suggest that Canon might be on to something, the data for May 2019 indicates that in some parts of the world, camera sales are not only holding steady compared to last year, but that camera sales have improved. Join us after the break to take a peek at the numbers. thephoblographer.com »
2019-07-19 13:00
All eyes have been firmly planted on cameras sales ever since Canon came out and said that they expect the camera market to decline rapidly in the coming years. While recent numbers from CIPA (Camera & Imaging Products Association) do seem to suggest that Canon might be on to something, the data for May 2019 indicates that in some parts of the world, camera sales are not only holding steady compared to last year, but that camera sales have improved. Join us after the break to take a peek at the numbers. thephoblographer.com »
2019-07-19 13:00
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 & […] petapixel.com »
2017-05-03 21:59
CIPA has released their sales numbers for the first quarter of 2017 and the news is better than we’ve seen over the last couple of years. The sales if interchangeable lens cameras (Mirrorless & DSLR) saw a 6% increase over the same quarter in 2016. canonrumors.com »
2017-05-03 13:45
Canon's recent acquisition of Toshiba's medical equipment unit has helped spur strong first fiscal quarterly financial results for the camera company, and as a result it has increased its full 2017 operating profit forecast. dpreview.com »
2017-04-26 23:40
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
Pergear (Click here) just shared this teaser image of the upcoming 7 new Autofocus E-mount lenses from Viltrox. The first two lenses, the 35 and 50mm f/1.2 are APS-C. I did upscale and increase the luminosity of the images to see a bit more of the lens: Personally I am really looking forward to the…
For a limited time you get the Lexar 320GB Type A card for the lowest price ever at Amazon US (Click here). More limited time deals: V90 fast 256GB SD card from Lexar is now available for $197 only at Amazon US.
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.