In Japan you can get full details about the exact camera market shares. And those clearly show that almost 50% of all sold system cameras are mirrorless (the rest is DSLR). Finally we got our hands on the mirrorless sales percentage in Germany (via DC.watch). The sales share in 2011 has been 12,7%. That’s a lot less but still…the market is growing. DSLR sales have been constant the last four years but I guess in 2012 mirrorless sales will grow much faster and DSLR sales will slightly fall. That’s just my personal guess, we will see in one year if that will become true.
Mewanwhile the CIPA (Camera & Imaging Products Association in Japan) announced that from now on they will use the term “non-reflex” for the so-called mirror-less cameras (via DC.watch). This clearly goes against my policy 🙂 I will always prefer the term “mirrrorless” over “compact system cameras (CSC)” or “non-reflex” or “evil” cameras.
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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)
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Nothing should be defined by what it isn’t!
I think it’s time for you to register http://www.compactsystemcamerarumors.com and http://www.nonreflexrumors.com :).
As for sales figures of mirrorless cameras, the trend has been confirmed by dpreview as well in http://www.dpreview.com/news/2012/02/15/Cipa_publishes_mirrorless_sales_and_shipments . As with film cameras, technology moves on and DSLRs will slowly have a minor percentage, being used by pros who need advantages PDAF still have over CDAF. But, having covered most profitable low end of the market, manufacturers will soon make more and more serious mirrorless bodies and lenses, so they’ll be able to easily take place occupied by APS-C DSLRs.
DSLNR, got it. Does this make everybody think of Dinner? I know I do.
Hello,
@ admin. Sorry but your argument towards «mirrorless» makes no sense and is directed just towards the past. Just imagine that by 2016, the market share for these cameras will be 90% in Japan whilst the one for DSLR would be stuck at 10% and let the corresponding figures in Europe and USA be 50-50. What sense would then make your argument? Defining the major system by the way it does not replicate the cameras of the previous generation?
There is no logic behind my choice. I only have the “feeling” that mirrorless is the right word. And I learned that most of the time things happen not because they are logical, but because they get an emotional value. And Mirrorless is a term that the mass is using more and more now.
@admin
just like the terms “wireless” and “cordless phones” 😀
Wouldn’t it be just be ‘DSL’ cameras then? The gives you, in order of appearance: SLR, DSLR, DSL
TLR – Twin Lens Reflex
SLR – Single Lens Reflex
SLT – Single Lens Translucent
All describing the camera. So why not:
SLE – Single Lens Electronic, or even SLD for digital.
Describes what it is, instead of saying what it doesn’t have compared to another type of camera.
I agree with drj; naming a product by what it does not have makes no sense. Imagine still calling a car a “horseless carriage” or a digital camera “filmless.”
Imagine calling internet without wires – Wireless. Oh… wait…
im from germany and i have bought E-PL1 short after it came out.
i will not buy a m43 product in the foresseable future.
m43 products are so often updated i could also burn my money.
olympus makes so many MINOR updates to their cameras that the models lose to much of their value.
my E-PL1 is now worth 30% of what i payed for.
at the same time i bought the e-PL1 i also bought a canon 550D.
if i would sell the 550D on ebay today i would still get 85% of what i payed for it.
Lucas, that’s why you buy used m4/3 camera. I bought my E-PL2 used six months after release and it is 25% cheaper than new. 8 months later it is $100 cheaper but for what I paid, it only lost 22%.
If I had gotten it new at release, I’d be down $250 (41.6%) a bit more than a year after release.
Non-reflex, that’s original.
Semantically, “mirrorless” and “non-reflex” are exactly the same thing.
also want to have a try for this kind of camera, but perfer have a smart celephone at first
CSC…. compact system camera….
mirrorless? ha… it´s also cowless or boobless…. even filmless
Just another bean counter somewhere who has to think of something to justify his job. We see them in all organizations, and the camera industries are no different.
Yet, no doubt, everyone will still just say mirrorless.
Would be interesting to hear other side on this story.
Otherwise this would be even more scandalous than
a joke.