Japan’s CIPA Camera Manufacturers Association, which unites Canon, Fujifilm, Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic, Ricoh, Sony and other photographic equipment manufacturers, released data on digital camera sales in June this year. Statistics show that sales, which peaked in March this year, have continued to decline smoothly since then. At the same time, they are still superior to last year’s.
In June 2021, 676,803 cameras were sold, which is 32.3% more than in June 2020, when 511,517 cameras were sold.
442 679 cameras with interchangeable lenses were sold. This is 35.8% more than a year ago, when 326,094 cameras were sold in June.
Compact cameras were sold in June of this year, 234,124 units, which is 26.3% more than in June last year, when 185,423 compact cameras were sold.
If we pay attention not only to quantitative indicators, it turns out that in monetary terms, sales of cameras increased by 60.1% compared to June last year. At the same time, in the segment of cameras with interchangeable lenses, sales growth was 71.2%. Continuing the segmentation, you can find that SLR cameras in pieces were sold 14.6% more than a year ago, and in monetary terms – only 7.8%. At the same time, mirrorless cameras were sold 58% more in quantitative terms, and 104% more in monetary terms.
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