Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 10/11/00 3:21 AM, Larry Kopitnik at kopitnil@marketingcomm.com wrote: > One chart shows total SLR sales from 1995 to 1999. These are sales > for all companies, not just Nikon (figures from the Japan Camera > Industry Association): > > 1995: 3,390,000 > 1996: 3,530,000 > 1997: 4,100,000 > 1998: 4,290,000 > 1999: 4,360,000 > > The chart shows Nikon's 1999 share as 20.9%. That would work out to > 911,240 Nikon SLRs sold in 1999. And Leica sold, what, 5000 to 6000 > R8s? A sobering comparison. Larry, Sadly, the global annual R8 sales is no where as many as 5/6000 units. Divide this figure by four is more like it. I like the R8 a lot but somehow in this part of the world the R6.2 still outsells the R8. Now that Leica has reduced the price of the R8 to Nikon F3 money, I sincerely hope its sales will pick up. But it may be too little too late...... Regards, Joseph Joseph@yao.com