Is Canon in Trouble?

Just an opinion. I think Canon has gone off track recently and are in the process of loosing clients due to their recent complacency. Nikon is now number one in Japan and Pentax have taken an even larger market share of 12.8 percent.

Just my take.

Ben

I think it would take a lot for a company the size of Canon to be in anything which could be called Trouble, but I don't think their position is as dominant as it was.

The EOS system had a huge head start in DSLRs such that even Nikon was playing catch up, but I think that advantage has recently dwindled. I also think they are suffering from a lack of a true entry level product. The 400D competes on the level of the Nikon D80 and K10D (in terms of price at least, for now I shall leave aside the true glory of the K10D features wise)

The big C has no current model to challenge the Nikon D40, Pentax K100D and whatever the Olympus entry level model is which always seems to come with such good twin lens kit prices.

True with the cutthroat nature of the low end Pentax, Nikon and Oly probably don't make that much money directly from these cameras, but system switching is not common. Once a person has bought a K100D and a couple of lenses, he or she is much more likely to upgrade to a K10D than to say a Canon 20D.

It is for this reason that I think the Samsung partnership will do Pentax good. The more people out there with K mount lens collections, the more will be likely to follow the Pentax upgrade path when the time comes.