Canon takes 3 out of 5 spots in BCN’s top cameras of 2023

[Canon Rumors Guy]

BCN which aggregates Japan sales information in various tech industries released a report ahead of their 2023 awards showing that Canon placed in spots 3 to 5 in their overall aggregate camera line sales for 2023. I understand this summarizes the cameras independent of whether the camera was sold as part of a lens kit

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[Cochese]

Either I\'m misreading something or that count is off. There\'s only 3 Sony cameras in the top 10.
3 Sony, 3 Canon, 3 Olympus and 1 Nikon.

 

[Richard CR]

Either I\'m misreading something or that count is off. There\'s only 3 Sony cameras in the top 10.
3 Sony, 3 Canon, 3 Olympus and 1 Nikon.

whoops. I can count .. really

 

[neuroanatomist]

For Canon, it says cheap is popular. No surprise.

The absence of the R100 isn’t surprising, I suspect that is targeted at the developing world (like the xxxxD DSLRs).

Will be interesting to see the BCN Awards when they come out.

 

[John Wilde]

(sarcasm) But no one buys low-end cameras anymore.

 

[John Wilde]

Will be interesting to see the BCN Awards when they come out.

Also interesting - Canon releases their full-year 2023 financials on January 30 2024.

 

[Richard CR]

For Canon, it says cheap is popular. No surprise.

The absence of the R100 isn’t surprising, I suspect that is targeted at the developing world (like the xxxxD DSLRs).

Will be interesting to see the BCN Awards when they come out.

Cheap is popular, but i have long suspected it's kits that ebayers and the like that would break down into pieces to resell for profit that drove sales a bit.

it always seemed to be the dual lens kits, etc. that would sell well. Now typically they would be the bigger bargain, but you wouldn't expect everyone to want the more expensive kits.

 

[David - Sydney]

Canon R5 most popular (besides iPhone) on Flickr last year with 8.6m shots… 6x the next canon (5Div). Behind Apple and canon is Nikon and then Sony.
Make of that what you wish
https://www.thephoblographer.com/2024/01/19/flickrs-most-popular-camera-is-fantastic-for-landscape-photography/

 

[Navism]

カメラ・光学機器 | BCN AWARD・BCN IT ジュニア賞

www.bcnaward.jp

BCN award 2023 released.
Canon is still doing great but mirrorless is no 2 this year.
I think sony zv-e10 is cheaper than R50 in Japan.
I think Canon may release R50 without evf this year to fight bacj zv-e10 ii .

On the other side

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ヨドバシカメラ売れ筋ベストテン「デジタル一眼カメラ用交換レンズ」2023年間ランキングショッピングサイト「ヨドバシ・ドット・コム」と全国24店舗のヨドバシカメラでの売上を集計して、毎月2回発表している「デジタル一眼カメラ用交換レンズ」ランキング。年間の売上を集計した2023年の年間ランキングを発表す...

getnavi.jp

Canon tele lens are selling good in 2023.
I think 200-800mm must be the best tele selling in 2024.

 

[koenkooi]

カメラ・光学機器 | BCN AWARD・BCN IT ジュニア賞

www.bcnaward.jp

BCN award 2023 released.
Canon is still doing great but mirrorless is no 2 this year.
I think sony zv-e10 is cheaper than R50 in Japan.
I think Canon may release R50 without evf this year to fight bacj zv-e10 ii .

On the other side

1年間で一番売り上げたレンズは？ 売れ筋レンズ2023年間ランキング【ヨドバシカメラ売れ筋ランキング】 | CAPA CAMERA WEB

ヨドバシカメラ売れ筋ベストテン「デジタル一眼カメラ用交換レンズ」2023年間ランキングショッピングサイト「ヨドバシ・ドット・コム」と全国24店舗のヨドバシカメラでの売上を集計して、毎月2回発表している「デジタル一眼カメラ用交換レンズ」ランキング。年間の売上を集計した2023年の年間ランキングを発表す...

getnavi.jp

Canon tele lens are selling good in 2023.
I think 200-800mm must be the best tele selling in 2024.

For all the people here claiming that a still-only camera (so no EVF or LCD, you take pictures blind) has a huuuuuuuge market, it’s weird to see a vlogging camera outsell everything else.

 

[Marphoto]

Super specialized market and it's difficult to generalize the information further. As others observed, the R5 gaining the greatest number of shots on Flickr apart from an iPhone speaks more to me.

 

[koenkooi]

Super specialized market and it's difficult to generalize the information further. As others observed, the R5 gaining the greatest number of shots on Flickr apart from an iPhone speaks more to me.

But that heavily weighted towards people actually taking pictures, which is impossible for the spec-lovers. Those refuse to use inferior cameras and are perpetually waiting for the next announcement.

 

[David - Sydney]

But that heavily weighted towards people actually taking pictures, which is impossible for the spec-lovers. Those refuse to use inferior cameras and are perpetually waiting for the next announcement.

True, although I would say that Flickr users tend to be older than the Insta/tik tok crowd and "perhaps" weighted towards more photography that you can't do on a iphone or at least not easily. Who knows... they might also be shooting in raw and processing which is clearly a smaller subset of the "average" mirrorless buyer segment.
That is not to shade the iPhone as computational photography is clearly more than sufficient for most use-cases. It's HDR implementation is pretty good for quick shots. Canon/Nikon/Sony et al could learn a lot to improve their green mode dial implementation.

All that said, the R5 is a strange body to be #2 when cheaper bodies like the R6 or equivalent mid-priced bodies from other ecosystems are more bang-for-your-buck.

 

[scyrene]

Flickr's stats are photos taken, right? Maybe R5 owners take more pics/take more pics worth posting/are more likely to share on there etc. It's a totally different type of insight compared to sales (units or revenue).

 

[neuroanatomist]

I wonder about BCN sometimes… Just ran across this:



An old Nikon DSLR going from 45th place last week to 7th place this week. That suggests it doesn’t take many units to move BCN’s needle.

 

[David - Sydney]

Flickr's stats are photos taken, right? Maybe R5 owners take more pics/take more pics worth posting/are more likely to share on there etc. It's a totally different type of insight compared to sales (units or revenue).

Stats based on photos shared/uploaded. Maybe "higher quality" shots than Apple snapshots or maybe old guard Canon shooters like Flickr (like me).
Photos taken on a R5 would be a very different data point but my keeper rate is higher than my 5Div to the extent that it is hard to choose which best shot to share sometimes.
Sales and revenue data have their place for Canon's future viability but it is fun to see how Canon shooters share the results of their purchases.