wingell Posted February 19, 2006 Share Posted February 19, 2006 Check the business article in tomorrow's NYTimes (Feb.20-online now)on the direction of the digital photo industry. It's a new world fortraditional camera companies as the electronics giants prepare to moveinto the high-end part of the digital market. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 Nice article, featuring our own Chad Marek. Interesting numbers for digital camera sales share in the US: Canon 17.2%, Kodak 16.9%, Sony 15.8%. Canon's dominance is not as great as I was led to believe, and when Sony puts its name on a DSLR line this year it will probably overtake them. I don't know where Samsung and Panasonic are in the league table, but I expect them to make leaps and bounds this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
._._z Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 That's only in the USA, not worldwide percentages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 OK, we're just talking about what we know. If you've got information on the worldwide picture, share it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce_rubenstein Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 Those percentages are total digital camera sales, of which a vast majoriety are P&S cameras. Canon and Nikon have around 90% of the DSLR market. It's a tough market to break into. There's also a pretty small window of opportunity to grab market share. The year-to-year % increase in dollar sales is already lower than the year-to-year % increase in unit sales (average prices are dropping). The year-to-year unit sales % increase will begin to drop as the market saturates; just like it did in the P&S market. There have been a couple of SLR sales bubbles in the past when new technology came out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
douglas_green1 Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 I'd say that Canon and Nikon are closer to 80% of DSLR sales, not 90% with Olympus holding around 11%, and Pentax and Konica-Minolta combined at around 7%, and Fuji and Kodak having the remaining little bits. Those would be estimates for 2005. In 2006, Kodak is gone, and Konica-Minolta becomes Sony, and Samsung enters, selling co-branded Pentax Product (and may soon take over Pentax, in much the same way Sony has taken over K-M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott_eaton Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 Well, Kodak just introduced another 800 speed 35mm print film, and...and...and.. we all know 800 speed 35mm print film has better resolution than digital capture, so these numbers must be a marketing lie. Sorry, I'm just mocking the film forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bart feliciano Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 Anyone who poses like this has no right to mock anyone.<br> <a href="http://www.photo.net/shared/portrait.tcl?user_id=24178" >Saucy!</a><br> LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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