An account on the Chinese language social media web site Weibo has shared a uncommon glimpse into the nation’s digital camera market, and it’s shocking: Canon offered twice the variety of cameras as Sony, and 4 instances as many as Nikon.
“The ‘2024-2029 Digital Digicam Trade Market In-depth Evaluation and Improvement Technique Analysis Report’ launched by the China Analysis Institute of Trade identified that the aggressive panorama continues to be primarily dominated by well-known manufacturers equivalent to Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Fuji,” reads the publish, by Weibo account Digicam Obsession.
“With its sturdy technical analysis and growth capabilities and model affect, Canon continues to steer the market with a market share of almost 50%. Sony and Nikon ranked second and third, with market shares of 26.1% and 11.7%, respectively.”
Sony Alpha Rumors, which shared the report, added that, “Furthermore Canon’s full-frame micro-single digital camera market share (variety of models) has been main for eight consecutive months since December 2023, rating first.”
Whereas it is tough to make sense of that assertion, it feels like Canon has been main the way in which in full-frame gross sales since December – which is attention-grabbing, given the PR back-and-forth all through 2024 with every model claiming to carry the gross sales edge in numerous areas.
Info on the Chinese language cameras market may be very elusive, and perception like this may be tough to come back by. Whereas we now have common and open entry to CIPA gross sales and transport figures, the info from China will not be almost as free-flowing – and given what a giant and more and more essential market it’s, we might like to see extra of this data.
We all know from Canon’s financials that the EOS R6 Mark II and R50 are each main gross sales pillars for the corporate. With the R5 Mark II now on sale, and the R1 set to ship in November, Canon’s share ought to solely get stronger to shut out the 12 months.
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