CIPA data: Mirrorless cameras shipment growing. DSLR falling. Even in US and EU!

Image on top on courtesy of Personal View (Click here).

The Japanese agency Cipa (Click here) published the camera worldwide shipments data for the month of June. And Personal View (Click here) ordered the data in many nice graphs. There are a couple of interesting trends:

1) Mirrorless camera shipment from Japanese companies are growing (+9% over the previous month)
2) DSLR shipments are falling (-11% compared with to May).
3) Mirrorless shipments increased in the “not-so-mirrorless-friendly”  US (+18%) and European market (+10%).

In short: In these time of crisis the DSLR market is falling dramatically while the Mirrorless market is slowly growing.

Sigma DP2 Quattro Hands-On Field Test video by TheCameraStoreTV

The Sigma DP Quattro is one of the strangest but also for some aspects very intriguing camera. Just watch the video on top to see if the camera suits for you :)

And if you want to read more about the camera check out this list of the most recent reviews and tests:

Sigma dp2 Quattro review (Digitalversus).
Test in Spanish by Quesabesde.
Sigma DP2 Quattro Review (Photographyblog).
Full review at ePhotozine.
Sample images by Outbackphoto.