All Nikon/Canon competitors only comprise 20% of the market
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From: RichA on 22 Jul 2010 22:40 Amateur Photographer: The rise of the mirrorless interchangeable lens compact camera has boosted the UK's digital camera market but their relatively high price will limit growth of this sector in the short to medium term, analysts warn. The UK photo industry has surpassed £615m in sales so far this year, figures compiled by market analysts at GfK Retail and Technology show. 'With over half the year complete, the Photo/Imaging market remains in a relatively positive growth position ' said a GfK spokesman. 'Looking at the changeable lens category, this has been helped by the growth of the compact system camera market, fuelled recently by several new brands entering this market, in addition to new models from existing brands. 'Consequently, the total changeable lens market posted growth of 14.9% in value.' Digital camera sales (£385m) account for nearly two thirds of overall sales. However, the news comes as analysts at Futuresource warn that the 'higher average retail price' of an interchangeable lens compact, compared to an 'entry-level DSLR', will limit growth of this sector in Europe. 'Another big influence on growth will be whether Canon and Nikon who currently dominate the wider interchangeable lens camera market decide to launch an interchangeable lens compact product,' said Futuresource consultant James Wells. 'In the short term, while we are expecting significant growth it will still only reach shipments of 377,000 units across Western Europe in 2010, compared to 3.3m units for DSLRs.' Canon/Nikon 'stranglehold' Wells added: 'Panasonic, Olympus, Sony and Samsung (with a 20% combined share of interchangeable lens camera shipments in 2009) are expected to promote this segment heavily in 2010, particularly at the Photokina show in September, in the run-up to the important fourth quarter period. 'The long-term aim [for them] is to try to break Canon and Nikon's stranglehold on the interchangeable lens camera market. Suffice to say, this will be an interesting space to watch over the next two or three years.' GfK adds that the growth of the changeable lens market has had a positive 'knock-on effect' on the sales of accessories, as consumers shun cheaper products in favour of higher value items to go with their cameras. Though sales volume fell, the value of accessories sold rose. 'Bags/tripods grew 0.6% in value for the year to date compared to this time last year, whilst lenses and memory cards increased their market value by 5.8% and 0.3% respectively. Accessories were worth £179m alone in July.
From: Neil Harrington on 22 Jul 2010 23:52 "RichA" <rander3127(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:109260e7-0ef3-4baa-90e2-3071508ac36e(a)w31g2000yqb.googlegroups.com... Amateur Photographer: >>> The rise of the mirrorless interchangeable lens compact camera has boosted the UK's digital camera market but their relatively high price will limit growth of this sector in the short to medium term, analysts warn. <<< Prices will come down as volume goes up, though. This will lead to still greater volume and even lower prices -- in time. "Nothing succeeds like success," as the saying goes. I am really interested to see what the Nikon ILC will be like. My guess is it will introduce a new lens mount, for physically smaller native lenses, but will also have available an adapter for current Nikon G lenses. They might diddle with the firmware so that third-party lenses won't work with the adapter. But if they do that, third-party makers might just produce their own adapters as well, unless Nikon has some way of preventing this. The UK photo industry has surpassed �615m in sales so far this year, figures compiled by market analysts at GfK Retail and Technology show. 'With over half the year complete, the Photo/Imaging market remains in a relatively positive growth position�' said a GfK spokesman. 'Looking at the changeable lens category, this has been helped by the growth of the compact system camera market, fuelled recently by several new brands entering this market, in addition to new models from existing brands. 'Consequently, the total changeable lens market posted growth of 14.9% in value.' Digital camera sales (�385m) account for nearly two thirds of overall sales. However, the news comes as analysts at Futuresource warn that the 'higher average retail price' of an interchangeable lens compact, compared to an 'entry-level DSLR', will limit growth of this sector in Europe. 'Another big influence on growth will be whether Canon and Nikon � who currently dominate the wider interchangeable lens camera market � decide to launch an interchangeable lens compact product,' said Futuresource consultant James Wells. 'In the short term, while we are expecting significant growth� it will still only reach shipments of 377,000 units across Western Europe in 2010, compared to 3.3m units for DSLRs.' Canon/Nikon 'stranglehold' Wells added: 'Panasonic, Olympus, Sony and Samsung (with a 20% combined share of interchangeable lens camera shipments in 2009) are expected to promote this segment heavily in 2010, particularly at the Photokina show in September, in the run-up to the important fourth quarter period. 'The long-term aim [for them] is to try to break Canon and Nikon's stranglehold on the interchangeable lens camera market. Suffice to say, this will be an interesting space to watch over the next two or three years.' GfK adds that the growth of the changeable lens market has had a positive 'knock-on effect' on the sales of accessories, as consumers shun cheaper products in favour of higher value items to go with their cameras. Though sales volume fell, the value of accessories sold rose. 'Bags/tripods grew 0.6% in value for the year to date compared to this time last year, whilst lenses and memory cards increased their market value by 5.8% and 0.3% respectively. Accessories were worth �179m alone in July.
From: Outing Trolls is FUN! on 22 Jul 2010 23:59 On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:40:58 -0700 (PDT), RichA <rander3127(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Amateur Photographer: > > >The rise of the mirrorless interchangeable lens compact camera has >boosted the UK's digital camera market but their relatively high price >will limit growth of this sector in the short to medium term, analysts >warn. The UK market is 0.9% of the world. Why they think that they in any way reflect the rest of the world is beyond me. Just more of their lousy bloody british pomposity.
From: Bruce on 23 Jul 2010 05:40 On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:59:28 -0500, Outing Trolls is FUN! <otif(a)trollouters.org> wrote: >On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:40:58 -0700 (PDT), RichA <rander3127(a)gmail.com> >wrote: >>Amateur Photographer: >> >>The rise of the mirrorless interchangeable lens compact camera has >>boosted the UK's digital camera market but their relatively high price >>will limit growth of this sector in the short to medium term, analysts >>warn. > >The UK market is 0.9% of the world. Why they think that they in any way >reflect the rest of the world is beyond me. The report is from a UK magazine that sells mostly in the UK. No claims were made that the data is representative of anything but the UK market. None. The whining Canadian probably chose to post it here because there is no comparable retail data available from US sources. The Japanese photo industry stopped publishing retail data a couple of years ago. No other countries except the UK publish their data. So the whining Canadian seized on the only market data that is still being published. >Just more of their lousy bloody british pomposity. Your American arrogance is showing.
From: Bruce on 23 Jul 2010 06:10
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:40:58 -0700 (PDT), RichA <rander3127(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >Canon/Nikon 'stranglehold' > >Wells added: 'Panasonic, Olympus, Sony and Samsung (with a 20% >combined share of interchangeable lens camera shipments in 2009) are >expected to promote this segment heavily in 2010, particularly at the >Photokina show in September, in the run-up to the important fourth >quarter period. That 20% is made up of Panasonic MFT cameras, Olympus E-Series DSLRs and Olympus MFT cameras, Sony Alpha DSLRs, Pentax DSLRs and the Samsung NX-10. Sony's target for its Alpha DSLRs was a 20% market share by 2010. They fell a very long way short of their target. What must be especially worrying for Sony UK is that they did a complex deal with Jessops, the UK's dominant photo store chain, in which Sony Alpha is given equal prominence in Jessops stores to Nikon and Canon. Each of the three brands now has equal display space across Jesssops' 233 stores. Pentax users are upset because Sony has completely displaced Pentax P&S and DSLR cameras from Jessops. Yet the sales figures for Sony Alpha DSLRs are *tiny*. They are still outsold by Pentax, even though the UK's dominant photo chain doesn't sell Pentax any more. And these figures come from 2009, which means that the effect of Sony's NEX range has yet to come. Sony has been spectacularly unsuccessful at persuading users of Sony P&S compact cameras to trade up to Alpha DSLRs. The early signs are that the NEX range is doing very well, with many NEX buyers trading up from Sony P&S. But the Alpha range is suffering, with Alpha DSLR sales having dropped significantly since NEX was introduced. In the short term, Sony will probably continue with Alpha. They will hope that the two slightly warmed-over "new" entry level models (A290 and A390) can attract new buyers. But the Alpha range of DSLRs has been a huge loss-maker for Sony from the start. Four years later, the range has a worse market share than it had under its former owner Konica Minolta, and there is no sign of those losses reducing. A successful launch for NEX can only make things worse. The Alpha range has to be killed off. The only question is when. |