Canon reports their actual unit sales and an estimate of the overall market, and the latter aligns closely with what Nikon reports and well with CIPA (with differences due to manufacturers reporting units sold and CIPA reporting units produced and shipped). So whatever their survey methodology, I presume Canon can count how many cameras they sell and do some simple math.
Hard pass.
Previously, Sony has claimed the #1 spot based on camera revenue, presumably because when they consider units sold they are clearly #2, and being #1 sounds better even if you need to define that in a way your competitors don’t.
I am really surprised that so many DSLRs still are sold - I thought that I am a quite late adopter of ML cameras. Checking Amazon shows that many of the entry APS-C models, the 250D, 1100D and 2000D alikes, are still in stock, also new FF models, the 6D II and 5D IV. I couldn't find any news that Canon discontinued production of these FF lmodels, other than the 1D-X III which is discontinued. Obviously, it still makes economical sense to keep these DSLRs in production for a while...
Pentax always was - and is - specialYou forgot Pentax
. Pentax sold 10.000 dslr’s in 2024, which is 2/3s of the number of dslr’s that Canon sold in a week
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The price of low end DLSRs are still a defining factor vs mirrorless. Examples of where this is important:
Oh, I absolutely agree! In fact, here's one of those discerning elites (or obtuse plebeian, take your pick):Unlike all these Canons, Sonies and Nikons, Pentaxes are boutique cameras for the discerning elite!
I’ve never defected!
If you mean new, recently produced film cameras, Canon is out of this business since decades, even Nikon discontinued their last film SLR, the professional F6, finally in 2020. There are only very few makers of new film cameras left, besides Lomo and these low-fi makers, Pentax revived the half 35mm film format with their fancy 17. This is a horribly overpriced underspeced plastic thingy for naive young hipsters that has only two positive aspects: it is a good training for classic zone focusing, since its simple viewfinder doesn't support focusing, and it brings users to think first and then hit the button (like in the old film days). I had the opportunity to use one Pentax 17 past year, and I immediately hated it. It would be okay if this this camera would be offered for 50 $, but nearly 500 US-$? That's crazy, but obviously there is a Zeitgeist market that Pentax has spotted.
It was a nice little gem of a tiny 35mm SLR already with TTL! My first real SLR was a Nikon FM-2, I still have it...Shall I confess that I loved my Pentax MX?
