BCN award 2023 winners announced: Sony on second place in the mirrorless camera market (but on top when it comes to lenses)

In 2022 Sony had the top position in the mirrorless world. But this year they slipped behind Canon. The exact opposite happened in the lens market: Sony is now ahead of Canon.

The Japanese BCN organization collected the exact sales number from 40% of the Japanese stores. And this is the market share of the camera companies:

･BCN AWARD 2023 Category Camera

• Digital camera integrated lens category (*The share in parentheses is last year’s share)
  1st Sony: 22.1% share (23.1%)
  2nd Canon: 18.0% share (34.01%)
  3rd Fujifilm: 17.1% share (11.6%)
• Digital camera SLR category
  1st Canon: 76.8% (59.8%)
  share 2nd Nikon: 17.2% (33.9%)
  share 3rd Ricoh Imaging: 5.7% (5.8%) share
• Digital Camera Mirrorless SLR Category
  1st Canon: 31.7% (28.2%)
  share 2nd Sony: 29.4% (32.0%)
  share 3rd OM Digital Solutions: 14.3% (12.7%) share
• Digital video camera category
  1st Panasonic: 42.4% (43.6%)
  share 2nd place Sony: 34.7% (26.3%)
  share 3rd place DJI: 9.4% (11.2%) share
• Action camera category
  No. 1 GoPro: Share 57.7% (70.4%)
  No. 2 DJI: Share 20.5% (5.3%)
  No. 3 Shenzhen Arashi Vision: Share 7.9% (-)

･BCN AWARD 2023 Category Camera Accessories

• Interchangeable lens category (*Last year’s share in parentheses)
  1st Sony: 16.4% share (17.2%)
  2nd Canon: 15.9% share (17.6%)
  3rd Sigma: 14.5% share (12.6%)
• Tripod/monopod category
  No. 1 Hakuba Photo Industry: Share 30.9% (29.1%)
  No. 2 Videndum Media Solutions: Share 15.1% (15.5%)
  No. 3 Slick: Share 14.4% (12.6%)
• Camera case/bag
  No. 1 Hakuba Photo Industry: Share 41.0% (33.3%)
  No. 2 Elecom: Share 17.5% (18.8%)
  No. 3 Etsumi: Share 5.9% (-)

via Digicameinfo