Digicam gross sales hit highest degree for 3 years pushed by mirrorless and a compact rebound: Digital Pictures Assessment
The newest business figures from commerce physique CIPA present extra cameras have been shipped between January and Could 2024 than in the identical durations of 2022 or 2023.
The figures, printed at this time, present 2.3M interchangeable lens cameras have been shipped: a 9.8% rise over the identical interval of 2023, and 11.9% up on 2022. In the meantime, cameras with built-in lenses have been up 7% in contrast with the identical interval of final 12 months, leaving them 4.2% decrease than 2022.
The worth of ILC gross sales grew 28.6% in contrast with final 12 months, to ¥251.8B ($1.6B), aided partly by the weak Yen boosting the worth acquired from abroad gross sales. In the meantime, the worth of fixed-lens digicam gross sales rocketed by 34.7%, to ¥37.6B ($233M) which means that at the very least a few of the development within the compact market is being pushed by high-value cameras equivalent to Fujifilm’s X100 VI.
Unsurprisingly, the shift from DSLR to mirrorless continued, with mirrorless cameras making up 83.7% of ILC shipments by quantity and 92.9% by worth. This compares with mirrorless making up 78.4% of volumes and 90.7% by worth, for a similar interval in 2023. With the vast majority of digicam makers focusing their efforts on mirrorless, this development appears prone to proceed.
In its annual outcomes, posted in Could, Nikon upped its prediction of the dimensions of the ILC market from 6.1M cameras to six.2M cameras for the present monetary 12 months, which might signify a 6.7% enhance over the 2023/24 figures.
