Amazon recently added a new bestseller category for mirrrorless cameras! That’s one more proof for the success of such cameras. But there is one BIG mistake. Amazon US
Check out the current rankings:
– Mirrorless camera ranking at Amazon US (Click here)
– Mirrorless camera ranking at Amazon Deutschland (Click here)
– Mirrorless camera ranking at Amazon UK (Click here)
– Mirrorless camera ranking at Amazon France (Click here)
Amazon Canada
What can we learn from those rankings? Generally spoken Micro Four Thirds is winning the game against Sony and Samsung. In UK and Germany, Samsung is doing surprisingly well and in France the NEX cameras are on top of the list. And the most popular camera is (as usual) the [shoplink 14828]Panasonic GF1[/shoplink].
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Sony NEX 5 is eight in Micro Four Thirds list :))).
The NEX is a fashion toy for spoiled society girls. They should actually produce it in pink to increase sales. I bet that would work.
They do! Well, at least the NEX-3.
Are you serious? I owned an Olympus E-P1 and now a NEX-3 (thanks to the new firmware upgrade), and when paired with good glass nothing in the m4/3’s world can compare to the IQ it produces….and I only paid $450 for it; with the kit zoom lens!
I’m currently looking for a Leica 28mm lens to go with it. Once I get that it will be the best street shooter I’ve ever owned. I wish it had an EVF, but it will do until the NEX-7 comes out.
I like both systems, I see no reason to belittle the other. For some people m4/3’s will be the best solution, but for someone like myself that wants to use rangefinder glass paired with a mirrorless body then NEX is probably the better system to go with.
We know that so called bestSELLERS are not necessarily BEST PQ MAKERS, don’t we?
WOW. Power of marketing: unreleased GH2 is higher than Sony NEX. Samsung NX isn’t in the top 20.
Though one can easily tell that the market is in its infancy: expensive cameras on average outsell the cheaper ones. (Comparing with the dSLR bestsellers, the 1000D is on top.)
I just noticed that too, how can a camera that’s not even out for sale already be on the top seller list?
I suppose they count preorders.
List listing has been around for a while, and they keep recategorizing things so often it’s almost meaningless. Note that none of the E-PL1 standalone products are listed, while a couple weeks ago they dominated the Top 20. The reverse was true of the Gx and GHx series Panasonics. Hopefully they’ll get it right eventually.
The US list has an error: The E-PL1 doesn’t even appear in it, checked all 50 selections. Admin, you should appise Amazon of this and see if they’ll correct it. My guess based on DPR posts alone, it should be in the top 5.
Correction, just noticed it appears as 8 different combo kits. This info presented in this way seems pretty useless, they should simply indicate units sold (i.e., the true rating to gauge against other mirrorless cameras) irregardless of the multitude of combo kits.