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Doing Well In Japan

johnriley
Posted 07/11/2016 - 15:52 Link
https://www.bcnaward.jp/award/gallery/2016/hard/p2.html

I see Pentax are doing well with their DSLR market share up from 4.5% in 2015 to 6.7% in 2016. They have increased sales by 50%. The figures apply to Japan - it would be interesting to see how they were faring in other markets as well.
Best regards, John
Simonmac
Posted 07/11/2016 - 15:55 Link
Cheers John!
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Algernon
Posted 07/11/2016 - 16:50 Link
But they used to have 7.5% up to about 2012 and Sony (3rd place in 2013 with 7.1%) have almost dropped out of DSLR's and moved to mirrorless.

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johnriley
Posted 07/11/2016 - 16:59 Link
The point is that it's now surging ahead again, which has to be a good thing?
Best regards, John
McGregNi
Posted 07/11/2016 - 17:01 Link
Its encouraging for sure. I believe the Ricoh Corporate results are out also and show the camera business increasing its presence within the overall wider operation, taking a larger slice of the overall profits. That will bode well internally, and hopefully translate to more ongoing Pentax investment.
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Posted 07/11/2016 - 21:30 Link
Algernon wrote:
But they used to have 7.5% up to about 2012 and Sony (3rd place in 2013 with 7.1%) have almost dropped out of DSLR's and moved to mirrorless.

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But at that time Ricoh was putting its efforts into the medium format range, sales of which won't appear in DSLR comparative sales.
Algernon
Posted 08/11/2016 - 08:38 Link
The K-1 (No: 22) and K-70 (No: 40) are selling well in Japan at present. If they keep that up I'm sure they will climb up the ladder by quite a few rungs

http://kakaku.com/camera/digital-slr-camera/ranking_0049/?page=2

Includes mirrorless and seems to be just online sales.

The Ratings at 4.80 and 4.96 are right at the top

Bear in mind that there has been a big drop in overall sales of all over the last few years.
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Edited by Algernon: 08/11/2016 - 08:47

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