The japanese very popular website DC.watch.impress asked their readers to vote the best camera of the year. These are the results:
1. E-P1
2. 7D
3. K-7
4. GF1
5. K-x
6. D3s
7. GXR
8. E-P2
9. D300s
10. GH1
But real japanese sales rankings do show a different story. Take a look at the November 2009 sales rankings: http://bcnranking.jp/category/subcategory_0008_month.html.
Interesting or not? It seems that a lot of people like the “concept” of MicroFourThirds cameras but not so many of them are buying it…
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My knowledge of Japanese is a little rusty but I can still see Japanese images OK. The GF1 places twice in the top ten with the white and the black models being counted separately; they also show differential pricing. White is growing in popularity and has a higher price than the black model. The D5000 also places twice but one version appears to be with a kit zoom and the other version body only.
I think there’s a pricing problem : µ4/3 is great but way too expensive!
If Olympus and Panasonic were a little bit less pretentious, they would success. If they don’t cut the prices, there are very small chances fort µ4/3 to become the 21st century standard…
The E-P1 was high on the japanese sales ranking back when it was recently released. I don’t remember now, but I think it was the second best selling camera for a while.
I think this shows first the HUGE potential of small cameras with large ( m4/3 and APS size sensors)
Once the m4/3 would get more single focal lengths , the success will come
Hm.. very strange. It does not take a scientist to understand that the GF1 absolutely is the best camera of the year in every aspect except for IS (but who needs it?!). I agree with “Yeah Yeah” that m4/3 is WAY to expensive! I would never consider buying a smaller camera at that price when I can get so much better image quality with a D5000 or a Pentax K-X for less money.