gwilliams6

Japan Top Camera Dealers' Top Twenty in total sales for 2022; and Top Ten in sales the last two weeks of December. Any UHHers buy any of these in 2022?

Japan is just one market, but the home market for most top brands.

From Canon Stalwart, Ordinary Filmmaker:
"Sony Domination - Canon Places Well" (his youtube title, not my words)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP6PwfAytz4

Yodobashi, Japan's largest Camera dealerships total numbers for 2022; and numbers for last two weeks of December 2022.

Top Twenty in Kodobashi sales for entire 2022:
1) Sony A7IV
2) Canon R5
3) Nikon Z9
4) Canon R6
5) Sony FX3
6) Sony A7SIII
7) Sony A7IV Kit
8) Canon RP
9) Nikon ZFC
10) Canon R3
11) Sony A6400
12) OM System OM-1
13) Nikon Z50 Kit
14) Sony A7III
15) Sony ZV-E10
16) Canon R6 Kit
17) Canon R10
18) Sony A1
19) Canon R7
20) Sony A7III Kit

Top ten in Kodobashi sales the last two weeks of December 2022
1) Sony A7IV
2) Sony A7RV
3) Sony FX3
4) Nikon Z9
5) Sony A7C Kit
6) Nikon Z50 Kit
7) Sony A7IV Kit
8) Sony ZV-E10
9) Fuji X-T4
10) Fuji X-S10

Cheers and best to you all, whichever brands you use and love in your home countries.

ddtroupe Loc: Snohomish, WA

GW, you know I bought the A7III. Did I make a mistake by not buying the IV? It seemed substantially more money, but maybe it's worth it?

DT

gwilliams6

The A7III is still an excellent camera. For the money it is the best value still, and still sells well. Yes the A7IV has a few more megapixels and some newer features, but the A7IV may not be worth the extra cost for what you shoot and what you need.

Dont worry, be happy, and if you aren't, trade in or sell your A7III after time and get a used A7IV, there will surely be used ones around.

Cheers and best to you.

billnikon Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont

I really do not care. It's the photographer, not the equipment. It is that way now and will ALWAYS be that way.

deanfl Loc: Georgia

Another wonderful photo!

Out of curiosity I just checked on what it would cost to buy the camera and lens that took this photograph….a Sony a1 and Sony 600 f/4. Full retail at Amazon was $19, 496 plus tax. KEH sells both for $10,201.53 plus tax.

While I agree with your statement, it’s the photographer, not the equipment, I think that for wildlife photography, equipment can make a difference between good and great photos.

billnikon Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont

Agreed, but I have gotten the same images with my D500 and Nikon 200-500. And that is a lot less cost than my other rig.

gwilliams6

Love the shot Bill.

You know I am a longtime pro shooter and also a longtime Professor of Photography and yes the photographer and their knowledge, experience, hard work and creative vision matter the most.

But in my almost five decades as an award-winning pro, shooting all subjects around the world, I also know the right equipment for the right job also matters, and can matter a lot.

You yourself have often talked in UHH threads about one brands' superior AF and tracking over another's. So gear does matter. And to many it also matters that you can still get the right gear you need because your fav brand and model is doing well enough in the marketplace to keep your brand in business and healthy enough to have the funds for continued engineering, innovation and production.

So it isn't a beauty contest or about fanboyism of one brand over another. It is an actual snapshot of which brands and which models ,with which feature sets, are doing well.

The question I asked was if any UHHers had bought any of these cameras in 2022. This isn't a discussion about what matters most, skill or gear. LOL

Bill you can fool others here in UHH, but not fool this ole Nikon, Canon, Leica, Sony pro that an APS-C format 20.9 megapixel shot with your D500 can ever equal the greater resolution and detail of a 50mp fullframe Sony A1 shot, or even equal the dynamic range of your A1 shot, or that the 10fps of the D500 can capture those in-between moments as easily as you can with a 30fps A1 even with your considerable skills , or give you a blackout-free EVF like in your A1 to help in tracking your subject. I could go on. If there was no shooting advantage to having that A1 you would not have spent for it and spent for that top optical quality 600mm f4 GM . LOL

Here top Wildlife Pro Mark Smith explains why he moved from Nikon DSLRs to Sony Mirrorless for his wildlife shooting, explaining when gear does matter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ruQVtSqnYo

Cheers and all the best to you Bill, again I love your work.

billnikon Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont

Real Nikon Lover Loc: Simi Valley, CA

And then he traded up for a Nikon Z9 with 120fps and a new Nikkor Z 800mm... And so it goes, on and on for another 5 decades, when in 2073... it is dependent on the skill of the photographer assisted by AI to capture the best possible 10,000 MP image in a cellphone.