[Leica] Interesting link on market share in Japan

[hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson)]

Don, the market continues to evolve, that's for sure.
And as the prices continue to drop each preceding model plummets in value.
I'm not familiar with that XT or XTi. I guess they are newies for Canon (?).
I would expect several months before the D80 appears in any quantity, in
this remote mini market.
Frankly I've always been under-whelmed with the build quality in all of the
consumer DSLRs I have ever handled. That goes double for the VFs. (No
knowledge on the high end ones).
That would apply though to all of the now defunct more modern 35mm low to
mid SLR bodies as well. But then I was brought up on mechanical Nikons and
these days largely use the M gear of course.
I actually have no leaning or history regarding the KM gear, but I do like
the fact that Zeiss designs will fit the new Sony bodies.

Cheers
Hoppy with dinosaur taste
If it ain't metal and glass....... 

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Don Dory
Sent: Tuesday, 29 August 2006 13:07
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Interesting link on market share in Japan

Hoppy,
The pre-sales on the D80 have not been especially good.  I think that the
D200 soaked up a lot of the serious buyers.  Likewise, I believe that the
Canon dealers had advance notice about the XTi so did not have a lot of
stock nor was the XT anything new whereas the Minolta loyalists could
finally satisfy their itch.  I suspect that the Sony phenom will be just for
a month or two as the build quality of the alpha is not so hot, of course
the D80 is not so robust either.  With the price for the XTi set at 899 with
shoddy lens and 799 body only I suspect that everybodies prices will come
down fast.

Don
don.dory@gmail.com


On 8/28/06, G Hopkinson <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>
> Don those figures are very interesting and quite surprising. Sony has
> certainly dented Canon initially.
> As you mentioned the arrival of new models ought to mix it up to all of
> our
> benefits.
>
> Locally (Australia) the D200 is finally becoming more generally available
> but Sony's marketing power has put an awful lot of that Alpha on the
> shelves
> in a hurry.
> Just on pixel power, it's almost half the price of the D200.
> Sony have the benefit there of the falling DSLR price v performance of
> each
> new release. Bring on the FF Alpha with the Zeiss glass options.
> For Nikon, as stock becomes available the D80 should be a biggie.
>
> Cheers
> Hoppy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
> Don Dory
> Sent: Tuesday, 29 August 2006 12:40
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: [Leica] Interesting link on market share in Japan
>
> Just like the title, this link gives an indication of what is going on
> elsewhere in the camera world.
>
> http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601101&sid=a1tNArNUlcUU

>
> I expect a lot of new models from brand C and N in the next few months as
> their replacement plan is thrown into whack by Sony.
>
> Don
> don.dory@gmail.com
>