Bill_de Loc: US

... in a shrinking market.

https://nikonrumors.com/2019/07/08/digital-camera-market-down-22-for-2018-the-latest-global-market-share-canon-40-5-nikon-19-1-sony-17-7.aspx

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cjc2 Loc: Hellertown PA

Guess I'll finally sell all my Nikon gear, at a big loss, and switch to Canon. NOT!

Rich1939 Loc: Pike County Penna.

Yup. and the sun still rises in the east.
A shrinking market doesn't play favorites, all the players are still at the table and in their usual seats. But, the pot is smaller

rmorrison1116 Loc: Near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

Does this mean my Canon gear is still better than my Nikon gear or my Nikon gear is still just as good as my Canon gear?

Bill_de Loc: US

Canon gear, being so popular, must be for the common folk.
Discriminating photographers shoot with Nikon.
Wannabes ... well, what can you say?





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camerapapi Loc: Miami, Fl.

What surprises me about those reports is how insignificant is Olympus rated. Panasonic is not even mentioned. Sony success is no surprise.
Canon has been for some time the company that sells more cameras and lenses. I do not hear much about their mirrorless cameras. Like Nikon they got pretty late into the mirrorless arena and I do not know about Canon but Nikon mirrorless prices are pretty high.
Olympus has done very well and their OM-1 MK II has sold very well. I know little about their new camera. They are introducing this year new models and I believe the Pen series will be discontinued.
It is significant to me how the dSLR market is shrinking.

rmorrison1116 Loc: Near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

So what you are saying is I'm a tasteful regular person. Not sure what you mean about the wannabes. Are they the folks who shoot Pentax?

RKL349 Loc: Connecticut

Maybe now I will sleep better at night. This matters little to me as long as I am happy using what I have. But for those who do really care, well, there you have it.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Yawn. Wake me up when they do something about it, or when there’s a merger or dropout.

So status seekers are buying smartphones instead of dedicated cameras. Photographer sortawannabes are scarce these days. That’ll leave a core group of serious users similar to what we had 50 years ago.

StanMac Loc: Tennessee

I would like to historical sales charts covering the period from the introduction of the 35mm SLR to the introduction of the DSLR. I’m betting they would show similar trends as the SLR gained acceptance and then leveled off and declined as the market saturated and matured. I’m sure the time line would be longer as the pace of technological change wasn’t as rapid. So no need to panic - we’ve been there before and we’ve adapted.

Stan

AntonioReyna Loc: Los Angeles, California

I have had Nikon film and digital but I am a Canon guy going way back. Not all things are shrinking.

Rich1939 Loc: Pike County Penna.

I think you're close to the truth! The industry needed a shot in the arm and digital did just that. Then, like now, the manufacturers were adding bells and whistles in an attempt to boost sales but a point was reached where the end users weren't much interested.

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

It means Nikon gear is still the very best but not enough people know it due to Canon having better advertising.

Dennis

RRS Loc: Not sure

No, Hasselblad's, and still buying film.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

I was an industry insider from 1979 to 2012, and have been a photographer since the late 1960s, so I have watched it closely.

The industry was heavy on 35mm SLRs in the 1960s to the early 1980s.

In the late 1970s, automation began to make small snapshot cameras and mini-labs popular, and their sales gradually ate into SLR sales.

In the late 1990s, APS film cameras and digital cameras began eating into SLR sales. Then the industry got the paradigm shifting WHACK from the triple whammy: Internet, social media, and smartphones. APS died almost before it really got started. Digital point-and-shoot cameras had about a seven year run. dSLR sales had a similar run up to peak, and have been falling or sluggish ever since.

The three major disruptive technologies I mentioned effectively drew away most of the casual market for cameras and photo prints. The 50+ year-old Photo Marketing Association International, which regularly drew over 40,000 people to annual conventions before 2010, evaporated after merging with CES, the commercial electronics show. Now Photokina is a fraction of the size it once was.