MirrorlessRumors posted a summary of the worldwide digital market trends and shares. The most interesting data are the market shares in Japan (sales shares for the first 9 months 2010):
Compact camera is lead by Canon 19.0%, followed by Casio 15.2% and Panasonic 13.9%
DSLR cameras is lead by Canon 32.0% followed by Nikon 29.4% and on third place we have Sony 13.1%.
Mirrorless is lead by Panasonic 38.7% followed by Sony 32.2% and Olympus 29.1%
Sony is Number three in the DSLR market and Number two in the new Mirrorlessmarket. That’s a huge success if you consider that in Japane 40% of all sold system cameras are Mirrorless!
P.S: Photographyblog posted a Sony HX100v, HX9v, WX10 Hands-On.
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That is to say that in just over one quarter from the time that the NEX cameras became available for purchase in Japan, the NEX cameras racked up one third of the total three-quarter sales for system cameras in Japan. It took NEX between three and four months to match Panasonic’s sales over nine months.
That’s a huge surprise if you consider the lack of lenses compared to Micro Four Thirds! Chapeou!
lens is not a big deal, huge number of owner are canikon DSLR users…. thanks to the adapter available.
Adapters is a big win for Sony and big loose for m4/3, but even despite of this – it’s really impressive that they managed to achieve so much after releasing camera to shops in 3rd quarter, stunning result. I wonder if at the end of 2011 we’ll find that Sony NEX is most popular mirrorless system in the world.