The DSLR and Mirrorless shipment chart from Personal View.
Luminous Landscape posted a video to talk about the ongoing mirrorless revolution. Watch it if you have time! And Thanks LL for mentioning our site 🙂
Personal View (Click here) posted the new graphs based on the July camera shipment data from CIPA. There is no big news to report a part of the constant growth of mirrorless camera shipments worldwide!
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Well I know that a webpage having mirrorless in ist title will cheer upon mirorrless camera sales but the truth is the sales are not “constantly groving”, but stagnating. Roughly 250000 CSCs vs. 800000 to 1000000 DSLRs is a huge difference.
Not as huge as it used to be last year. Or the year before. 😉
OK, but in that case it is more appropriate to write about DSLR sales drop rather than about CSC sales rise. 😉
Not really, mirrorless sales are growing remarkably well in my general area. Any “big difference” in DSLR sales is largely a result of Canon and Nikon peddling camera sales to amateurs in virtually every retailer they can get shelve space onto. I highly doubt “prosumers” or actual “professional” photographers routinely shop at Target, Conns, Arron’s, Best Buy, Wal-Mart or (oh god) Sam’s Club or Costco to buy the latest one year old kit lens combo. Using the “higher DSLR sales” argument is only highlights the amateur consumer who buys a DSLR because they feel the camera will magically take better photos when passing through the electronics section.
DSLR sales has been a significant challenge for years now. Literally, DLSR camera units sit on shelves longer than mirrorless cameras do where I live here in Houston, TX. The main stores here are: Houston Camera Co-op, Houston Camera Exchange and Ritz Camera. Any photographer, casual or professional, worth their salt will not choose any of the lousy mirrorless options from Canon or Nikon, nor is anyone impressed with the heavily limited, feature-lacking APS-C cameras from either Canon or Nikon as well. It’s a joke when focus peaking still isn’t available even in the revered 5Dmk3.
Real professionals here in Houston typically choose full frame DSLRs, giant film cameras and mirrorless cameras for their professional work. Professionals make up virtually none of the full spectrum of total annual DSLR sales worldwide, and full frame makes up little to none of total DSLR sales worldwide; but even then, they all still own mirrorless cameras!
Fact is, the professional photographers I know here care not about “DSLR” or “Mirrorless” labels. It’s about price, usability, and being able to deliver professional results that the client is happy with. No camera, whether a full frame, APS-C or m43 is perfect. Either the GH4, E-M-1, X-T1, A7/r/s can do that right now.
It’s the mobile camera on our phones that is the main cause of the decline of SLR or cameras in general, I strongly presume. Most people dont feel the need of SLR, nor mirrorless anymore because they do it with their phone. Would be interesting to see the graph including mobile phones.