Tag Archives: BCN ranking

July CIPA report: the downturn continues; Nikon and Canon dominate the BCN rankings

By PR admin | Published: September 4, 2018

I have been tracking the CIPA shipments data for years, but this time I will use the excellent graphs created by CanonNews based on the latest July 2018 report (click for larger view):

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2018 Canon, Nikon and Sony market share (latest Nikkei, BCN and CIPA reports)

By PR admin | Published: August 1, 2018

Nikkei published their 2018 interchangeable lens camera worldwide market share report: Canon: 49.1% Nikon: 24.9% Sony: 13.3% All other companies (Fuji, Olympus, Panasonic, Ricoh) combined have less than a 13% market share (the top 3 camera manufacturers gained 6.2% in 2018 to a total of 87.3%). The compact (fixed lens) digital camera market share shows similar numbers. […]

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BCN Ranking Japan: Canon is #1 in the mirrorless market for 2018

By PR admin | Published: July 22, 2018

BCN Ranking published their digital camera ranking for the first half of 2018: Fixed-lens cameras: #1 is Nikon with 31% DSLR camera: #1 is Canon with 58.9% Mirrorless camera: #1 is Canon with 30.1% Video cameras: #1 is Panasonic with 44.1% Action cameras: #1 is GoPro with 72.9% Olympus was the #1 mirrorless camera maker in 2017 […]

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June’s BCN ranking camera sales report: the top 11 spots taken by Nikon and Canon

By PR admin | Published: July 9, 2018

BCN ranking published their top-selling cameras report for the month of June. The first 11 spots are all taken by Nikon and Canon (the first Sony camera is at the #15 spot, the first Fuji camera is at the #45 spot out of 50). As far as I know, BCN collects sales data from approximately 2/3 of all […]

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The 2018 BCN camera rankings are out

By PR admin | Published: January 16, 2018

The 2018 BCN rankings are out (BCN collects sales data from approximately 2/3 of all Japanese retail stores):

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The 2017 BCN camera rankings are out

By PR admin | Published: November 15, 2017

The 2017 BCN camera rankings are out – the recap is: Canon is up, Sony and Nikon are down, Fuji is still missing, Olympus is #1 in mirrorless. Here are the details:

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2016 BCN awards in Japan: Canon wins in almost all categories

By PR admin | Published: January 16, 2017

The 2016 BCN awards for the Japanese market are out (BCN collects sales data from approximately 2/3 of all Japanese retail stores). Canon still has a major market share in almost all categories (even in mirrorless – now at the #2 spot after pushing Sony to #3). Olympus is the #1 mirrorless camera, while Fuji never made […]

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Amazon’s best selling cameras, latest BCN sales ranking and CIPA report

By PR admin | Published: November 4, 2016

It seems that every few months we have to go over this: a new camera making it to the #1 spot in the best selling mirrorless camera list right after being announced indicates… absolutely nothing. It just means that Amazon sold more Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II cameras than Sony a6000 cameras for a day or two. […]

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