Those are the worldwide market shares: Canon leads comfortably and Nikon looses ground

Nikkei published the 2019 worldwide camera share market analysis:

The top five digital camera companies had a 93.7% share in 2019. Camera sales dropped down to 14.83 million units (-22.4%). Those are the market shares:

-Canon 45.4% (+2.4)
-Sony 20.2% (+0.9)
-Nikon 18.6% (-1.6)
-Fujifilm Holdings 4.7% (-0.4)
-Panasonic 4.7% (0.0)

In 2018 Olympus was at the fifth position but has been now surpassed by Panasonic. I guess not many expected to see Canon increase their market share despite Sony’s Alpha line success. Nikon had a major drop that is very worrying. And I didn’t expect Fuji to have this small -0,4% drop too.

via DigicameInfo

TheSlanted Lens: Does Sensor Size REALLY Matter? Camera Sensor Size Comparison – Part Two

The Slanted Lens writes:

In this Camera Sensor Size Comparison we compare the Fujifilm GFX 100 Medium Format, Sony a7r IV Full Frame, Canon EOS R Full Frame, Fujifilm X-T4 APS-C Format and the Olympus OM-D E-M1 Micro Four Thirds Format cameras. We take a look at equivalency and also compare them in daylight and low light. Are larger megapixels cleaner in low light? How does the grain compare? How does ISO affect the images? And how are details maintained in overexposed and underexposed images.
Take a look and let us know your thoughts!

Rumor says Sony might give you a new Full Frame A5 with IBIS, pop up EVF, 4k60 (crop) for a price around $1,000

rendering of a possible A5 camera (Yukai)

Now if that rumor turns out to be true than Fuji and MFT folks will have to worry. Sony might plan to launch a new $1,000 Full Frame camera in September. Those are the first and super wild rumored specs via SAR:

  • new body design similar to a5xxx/a6xxx mixed metal and plastic.
  • The grip is pretty large to accommodate the battery.
  • 5 fps
  • ibis
  • no pop-up flash
  • there is a pop-up evf with 770.000 pixels (2.3m points) 0.6x mag.
  • Also touch screen like the a7sIII
  • records 4k 24p 10bit 100mbps, 4k 30p 10bit 100mbps and it even has 50/60p 4k but is really crippled they told me no audio, cropped and works only in s&q mode

This one would sell hot and basically kill the entire APS-C segment!

MR note: I only wrote this statement to attract Fuji and MFT trolls in the comment system….like flies on shit :)