Revenant

Why would "solid" and "respectable" be mutually exclusive? I read both as meaning "quite good, but not great".

The a9 is placed in the DPR category called "Professional Interchangeable Lens Camera / DSLR", which should be the same category as D5 and 1DX II. They don't have separate categories for mirrorless and DSLRs.

DPR has posted rumours about many brands, eg. Fuji, Olympus, Sigma and others. But selective memory is convenient, I guess.

Canon is the only Japanese camera manufacturer that uses the calendar year as FY. The others use a FY that ends in March, but if I recall correctly they use different naming conventions. Some name the FY after the calendar year in which it begins, while others name it after the calendar year in which it ends.

@Petrogel

No one claims that Japan is a different continent. As I said, CIPA aren't interested in continents, but in camera markets, and the Japanese market is deemed important enough to be treated separately from the rest of Asia.
I don't see a problem here, except perhaps that they should have used the label 'Asia excluding Japan' to avoid any confusion.

I'm well aware that this thread isn't about any specific brand, and that Ricoh is one of the companies supporting CIPA. But your Pentax posts have appeared in many other threads that specifically are about other brands, which I'm sure you're well aware of.

Well, in Japan at least, Canon was #2 in mirrorless last year, according to the latest BCN rankings. Those are based on sales data from about 50% of Japanese retailers. Interestingly, Olympus took the #1 spot that Sony occupied the year before, pushing Sony down to #3.

Globally, I'm pretty sure that Sony is still #1 in mirrorless, but I wouldn't be surprised if Canon is #2. Olympus is not as strong outside Asia, Panasonic has lost market share in recent years, and Fuji's share is quite small (but reportedly growing).

Thom's analysis is a better indicator of the future than short-term statistics. Mirrorless will largely replace DSLRs, but mostly because DSLR sales are declining, not because there is significant long-term growth in MILC sales.

We're not talking about physical geography here, but about markets. Japan is the home market, and therefore has a special significance for the Japanese camera makers. That's why CIPA treats it as a separate market.

Russia and Turkey are included in the European market, even though both countries are partly Asian.
Africa and Oceania (and probably the Middle East) are lumped together as 'Other', which doesn't reflect physical or political geography, either.

"Pentax zealots", "in cahoots", your choice of words doesn't exactly instil confidence in your objectivity. Neither does the fact that you post comments like this again and again, even in threads about other brands than Pentax.

SLTs are usually included in the DSLR category, and Sony has always marketed them as a kind of DSLR, since they replaced the DSLRs in their line-up, and were intended as direct competitors to Canon's and Nikon's DSLRs.

Yes, but shipments are basically sales from corporate headquarters to regional subsidiaries, which presumably are correlated with consumer demand.

I actually think Canon has a larger share of the enthusiast compact market than Panasonic. Point-and-shoot sales have plummeted, but Canon is still #1 in compact cameras (at least in Japan, according to BCN), so I think their G series models are selling quite well.

There is no Panasonic/Sony duopoly, if we're talking sales/market share. Both Canon and Nikon outsell Panasonic in compact cameras.

The WG series was rebranded as Ricoh a couple of generations ago. They use the Pentax brand only for ILC cameras nowadays.

It's not just a general consumer trend in Nikon's case, because they have lost quite a bit of market share in recent years. This means that Nikon's sales has declined faster than the camera market on average. Canon, on the other hand, has gained market share.

Camera manufacturers generally want you to upgrade to the next model up in the hierarchy, not to a successor model at the same level. So, Nikon wants to sell you a D500 (or a FF model), while the D7500 is probably targeted at people upgrading from a D5xxx series model.

"But I guess I don't get why anyone would limit themselves with a 28
When they could have a 24."

"My point is, a 24mm prime can basically be used as a 28, but a 28 can never be used as a 24, so why limit yourself with a 28?"

You forget that there are people, who basically never shoot wider than 28mm. There are also people who find pleasure in getting the framing right at the time of capture, rather than doing so after the fact.

I would much rather use a 28mm than a 24mm that forces me to crop the image afterwards. Just like you often are using the wide end of a 24-70, I usually have to zoom in a little before I'm happy with the framing. Different people, different preferences.

"Name an APS-C camera with better performance of these two features."

Not hard at all. The Nikon D500 is certainly one such camera.

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