Canon Continues Marketshare Dominance in Japan

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For all the grief Canon gets about a “lack of innovation”, they continue to dominate marketshare in the biggest markets on earth. BCN has released their sales numbers for 2016 and Canon continues its impressive and in some case growing share of imaging market segments.</p>
<p><strong>DSLR Camera Markshare 2016 (Japan)</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Canon 63.3% (56.2% in 2015)</li>
<li>Nikon 31.6%</li>
<li>Ricoh 4.8%</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>Mirrorless Camera Markshare 2016 (Japan)</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Olympus 26.8</li>
<li>Canon 18.5% (13.6% in 2015)</li>
<li>Sony 17.9%</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>Fixed Lens Camera Marketshare 2016 (Japan)</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Canon 27.3% (30.5% in 2015)</li>
<li>Nikon 22.1%</li>
<li>Casio 19.3%</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>Lens Marketshare 2016 (Japan)</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Canon 24% (24.1% in 2015)</li>
<li>Sigma 14.3%</li>
<li>Nikon 12.5%</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>Photo Printer Marketshare 2016 (Japan)</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Canon 53.1% (56% in 2015)</li>
<li>Casio 25.0%</li>
<li>FujiFilm 18.0%</li>
</ol>
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IglooEater said:
This is Japan- i'd be curious to see the same figures for other countries. I dare say there could be major differences.

maybe in the US, however, Canon has been pumping the Asian market hard with mirrorless the last 3 quarters, and since a significant amount of mirrorless are shipping to Asia, it's probably not that much different.

or really important.

thom (sansmirror.com) states that from the information he sees that canon is firmly #2 worldwide behind sony. Quite easily possible. Olympus only shipped 460,000 mirrorless for all of last year. Odds are Canon shipped more than that.

Sony still leads globally, but probably not for long.
 
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I wonder why it is the Lens share of all those metrics in which the absolute part of Canon is the smallest, while in the West, the lenses seem to be the most praised product of Canon.
Also I didn't realize that there are that many lens manufactorers, since the top 3 mentioned in the post make up only a small share.
 
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testthewest said:
...I didn't realize that there are that many lens manufacturers, since the top 3 mentioned in the post make up only a small share.

The top three represent 50% of the market, that's not a small share. That means that all other manufacturers: Sony, Tamron, Tokina, Fuji, etc., are splitting the remaining 50%. Keep in mind that most people never buy a second lens, so you have to consider that that 50% includes all the lenses that "come with" the bodies. And, of those who do buy a second lens, the majority are likely going for the cheapest available, which may also skew the results toward third party offerings.
 
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There's also the fact that Nikon did release some pretty stellar cameras a few years back, like the D800 - if I was a Nikon user, I'd not see a strong reason to spend money on an upgrade right now.
(Spoken by someone who loves his 5d4 :) )
 
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mclaren777 said:
riker said:
ROTFL bigger mirrorless share than Sony. WTF is happening overthere?! Or in these statistics.

The echo chamber of "Canon sucks" and the mirrorless fanboyism of the US doesn't appear to be international.

If you love specs, then Sony is the way to go. If you like well made cameras, that take great photos and are fun and easy to use, then Canon (and Olympus, too) are the way to go. When I bought the Sony A7 to replace my 6D, I couldn't have been more disappointed. Lousy viewfinder compared to the Olympus e-m1, crappy kit lens (that turned out to be the short flange distance issue), underexposed everything, crappy ergonomics, lousy color and tonal curves that didn't differentiate enough in the mid-values. Returned it and tried the A7 II - which had the same issues. Just bought the M5 which I am quite pleased with so far. So I quite understand how Olympus and Canon are doing better than Sony as I'm a satisfied Canon and Olympus user and Sony went 0 for 2.
 
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dak723 said:
If you love specs, then Sony is the way to go. If you like well made cameras, that take great photos and are fun and easy to use, then Canon (and Olympus, too) are the way to go. When I bought the Sony A7 to replace my 6D, I couldn't have been more disappointed. Lousy viewfinder compared to the Olympus e-m1, crappy kit lens (that turned out to be the short flange distance issue), underexposed everything, crappy ergonomics, lousy color and tonal curves that didn't differentiate enough in the mid-values. Returned it and tried the A7 II - which had the same issues. Just bought the M5 which I am quite pleased with so far. So I quite understand how Olympus and Canon are doing better than Sony as I'm a satisfied Canon and Olympus user and Sony went 0 for 2.

Same experience coming from Sony to Canon. I had no idea cameras can be as easy, painless and fun to shoot as Canon's.

riker said:
The echo chamber of "Canon sucks" and the mirrorless fanboyism of the US doesn't appear to be international.

I think it's mostly "online". DPR et. al. The "specs" people take them seriously, it's kind of a big deal to take cat pics with a nice mirrorless, DSLRs definitely suck at this.

BTW didn't know Casio and Fujifilm make photo printers... Is it something commercial (not home / SMB use)?
 
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Great - just because some ten thousand uninformed people on an island at the end of the world still buy lame products, the rest of the world has to wait years for urgent improvements regarding stabilization, video quality, articulating screens, EVF and dozens of other features
 
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Mikehit said:
sanj said:
riker said:
ROTFL bigger mirrorless share than Sony. WTF is happening overthere?! Or in these statistics.

You right. Something not right here.

You mean 'not right' as in 'They don't agree with me so they must be wrong'?

No. Something seems wrong with the statistics. I agree with you that Sony has to be ahead in the mirrorless segment. And where is Fuji?
 
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douglaurent said:
Great - just because some ten thousand uninformed people on an island at the end of the world still buy lame products, the rest of the world has to wait years for urgent improvements regarding stabilization, video quality, articulating screens, EVF and dozens of other features

No worries. As long as the seven dwarves (Fujifilm, Leica, Olympus, Panasonic, Ricoh, Samsung, Sony - from http://www.sansmirror.com/newsviews/why-are-mirrorless-cameras.html) have not caught up with Canikon market shares, they'll continue to flaunt new technologies in their MILCs as they fight desperately to entice newcomers to the world of ILCs.
 
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