Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]As I have said before, you have to drill down into how the information was collected. Some report shipments, some report retail sales, some report sales from specialty dealers, some report overall sales. Kodak's numbers are from shipments, not actual hard cash transactions: Kodak shipped a whole lot of product late in the Christmas season. We will not find out until the numbers for the first quarter how much of that was returned and at what profit. Sony is laughing all the way to the bank as they make a whole lot of the sensors for everybody else. Don dorysrus@mindspring.com -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of John Mason Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 1:43 PM To: lug@leica-users.org Subject: [Leica] Digital Camera Market Share, US '04, was For B.D. Karen: > I know the LUG hates having real data instead of > supposition, but: <http://www.photoethnography.com/blog/archives/2005/02/news_recent_top_2 .html> Karen's figures were for Japan. The numbers in the US are quite different. On 2 February of this year, the AP reported that the running order for digtal camera sales in the US is: Kodak, 21.9% Sony, 19.4% Canon, 16.1% Olympus, 10.4% HP, 8.1% Fuji, 8% Nikon, 6.2% <http://tinyurl.com/3l98m> Can't find much on DSLR market share, except to confirm that Canon and Nikon are #1 and #2, with everyone else far behind, in the US and Europe. --John J Mason Charlottesville, Virginia __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Make Yahoo! your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information