The 2020 BCN Ranking Japanese camera market share report is out



BCN Ranking published their 2020 Japanese camera market share report for the different camera categories. BCN Ranking collects real sales data from approximately 40% of the Japanese retailers - this is not a worldwide report as some websites reported. Here are the numbers compared to the 2019 BCN ranking that can be found here:

Fixed lens digital cameras (point & shoot)

  1. Canon: 39.1% share (was 29.8%)
  2. Sony: 19.7% share (was 11.9%)
  3. Fuji: 11.4% share (was not present)

DSLR cameras 

  1. Canon: 51.9% share (was 57.4%)
  2. Nikon: 44.8% share (was 39.3%)
  3. Ricoh: 3.0% share (was 3.1%)

Mirrorless cameras

  1. Sony: 27.4% share (was 22.7%)
  2. Canon: 23.8% share (was 31.6%)
  3. Olympus: 23.4% share (was 23.5%)

Video cameras

  1. Sony: 37.3% share (was 35.1%)
  2. Panasonic: 32.2% share (was 45.8%)
  3. JVC Kenwood: 11.1% share (was 13.1%)

Action cameras

  1. GoPro: 7o% share (was 74.3%)
  2. Sony: 7.5% share (was 8.5%)
  3. SAC: 6.5% share (was 7.2%)

Via BCN Ranking