September CIPA camera shipment report: System camera shipment doing worse than expected

What do you want to read first…the good or bad news? Let’s start with the bad news:

1) If you click on the chart above you will notice that system camera shipments in September were lower compared to last year. Which is quite a bummer if you consider that last year we had the Kumamoto disaster.

2) The good news is that fixed lens camera sales are still strong and makes up for the bad system camera performance. The total camera shipment is therefore still higher than 2016