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Nikon has announced that during December 2017, the company took the number one position for market share and revenue for full-frame interchangeable lens digital cameras in the United States. This is thanks in large part to the new Nikon D850 and the older, but still very capable, Nikon D750 DSLRs.
Compared to December...
While Black Friday isn't officially until tomorrow, the holiday sale of the year has already started in earnest, with several big-box stores already having rolled out their door-crasher sales. There are still great deals to be had over the weekend though, and we're going to shine the spotlight on a few of those right...
Black Friday is fast approaching and you know what that means…great camera deals! We have been compiling them on our "Black Friday Camera Deals for 2016" page, but we realize that there are a lot of deals to keep track of, so we are starting a daily round-up of some of the standout deals.
Before we get to the deals, we...
Over the last few days, Japanese companies have been releasing their financial reports for the first quarter of their 2016 fiscal year. (That is, for the period from April to June 2016; the Japanese fiscal year doesn't follow the calendar year, but instead runs from April 1st to March 31st.) Among those doing so are both...
Happy New Year! Well, just about. Although 2015 is almost over, new enticing camera deals are not. With your pockets nearly bursting with all that holiday gift money, there are lots of tempting year-end sales, savings and rebates on cameras and lenses from a wide variety of brands. Check out all the deals below, and note...
Today at a conference in Tokyo, Nikon Corporation shared their financial results for the second quarter of the fiscal year ending March 31, 2016. While the numbers for their camera business are still markedly down, their outlook seems better than for some of their competitors.
The results show that Nikon's overall...
Earlier this month, Olympus issued a service advisory for OM-D E-M10 Mark II owners whose cameras were affected by a lens mount locking pin issue that caused plastic mount lenses to not secure properly to the camera body. As a result, Olympus also announced it was pausing the sales of all E-M10 II until the issue was fixed for all units in transit...
Autumn is almost here, meaning Olympus’ summer sales are coming to a close. But, if you’re quick to pull the trigger and looking to pick up some new Olympus gear, you have through September 5th, 2015 to do so.
In addition to bundle savings when purchasing a camera and lens together, Olympus’ summer lens sales can save you up to $200 on standalone...
Earlier this week Reuters shared a report wherein Sony’s Tomoyuki Suzuki, head of device solutions business, shared this year’s estimated sensor sales numbers, which are expected to grow 20% year-over-year. This would put Sony at half of last year’s 40% year-over-year growth. But, according to Suzuki, it’s due to too much of a good thing -- demand.
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Last week, Nikon published the financial results for its fiscal year, ending on March 31st, 2015. According to the numbers, Nikon’s sales are down 14.5% and profits 11.8%, reportedly due to ‘delayed market recovery,’ mainly in Europe and China.
Leading the loss in sales and profits was, predictably, Nikon’s compact camera systems, down 31% in...
Now this is just plain cool: A KickStarter project that has already surpassed its funding goal will soon give you a really memorable way to share your online portfolio, reports PetaPixel.
If you're a photographer looking for new clients, it's pretty obvious that the best way to persuade them to sign on the dotted...
For the past couple of years, the digital camera market was on a downward slope in both sales and revenue generated. This could mainly be attributed to the rising use of smartphones and consequent drop in sales of compact cameras, but also partially to a saturation of the market in general. We reported multiple times on this topic, and in 2014 we've...
Been waiting a while for your GH4 pre-order to arrive? You’re not alone—Panasonic needs to start making more of their 4K-shooting flagship camera.
Panasonic Japan posted a message noting that orders for the GH4 have exceeded their internal expectations, and apologized to buyers who will have to wait for their cameras...
It's only been about a month ago that we shared an infographic made by LensVid, which unmistakably demonstrated the stark decrease in overall digital camera sales in the years 2012 and 2013. And while the trend seems to continue in 2014, the latest CIPA figures show at least a small beacon of hope. According to the sales...
Have you bought a Canon digital camera in the last couple of decades? If so, you're not alone. Far from it, in fact. Some 19 years after it jointly launched the EOS DCS 3 with Eastman Kodak, Canon has just announced production of its 250 millionth digital camera!
To put that mind-boggling figure in perspective, 250...
More bad news from the world of camera sales—there's more data on just how rough of a year 2013 was, and it looks like 2014 is off to a pretty poor start. This builds on previous reports of poor sales, and doesn't paint the beginnings of this year in a very positive light.
LensVid has put together an infographic on...
For mirrorless cameras, 2013 was a banner year, with models like the Sony A7 and A7r and the Olympus OM-D E-M1 really pushing the boundaries of optical excellence, and cameras like the Panasonic GM1 wowing us with small form factors. Yet, despite these advances, sales of mirrorless cameras were disappointing. Now UK...
Good news and bad news for fans of Fujifilm photographic products -- the company reports that its imaging business was able to cut its losses by more than 60% in the final three quarters of 2013, compared to the same period in 2012. Thanks to overall improved sales, losses went down from JPY3.9bn to JPY1.5bn. Although that's still almost US$15m, it...
When Olympus first introduced the OM-D E-M1, the company touted it as its flagship model in both the Micro Four Thirds and the now-discontinued Four Thirds E-system cameras that with the Olympus E-5. Immediately after its release, the camera was showered with raving reviews, and it quickly made it to #1 on Amazon.com's list of best-selling...
Ever since the introduction of mirrorless camera systems such as the Micro Four Thirds system, the Sony E-mount system and the Fujifilm X-mount system, cameras with interchangeable lenses have been gaining in sales all around the world -- at least that's what we thought. While in fact the sales statistics for...