Sony now has 24% of the overall worldwide camera market share. Up 4% over the previous year!

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Today Sony had a 5-hour meeting with analysts and investors:
Sony IR Day 2019 (IR = Investor Relations). Sony.net…
The portion of the presentation dedicated inter alia to cameras and lenses: Sony.net…
The same document from last year’s meeting (22 May 2018): Sony.net…

In both cases the most interesting slide is the last one, dedicated to market shares and market ranks:

Between FY2017 (April 2017 – March 2018) and FY2018 (April 2018 – March 2019):

  • The still camera market went down from ¥1,400bn to ¥1,300bn i.e. a decrease of 7.1%. This is coherent with CIPA shipment figures (cameras + lenses), which lead to a 8.3% decrease.
  • Sony’s share in the still camera market went up, from 20% to 24%.
  • Sony’s share in the ILC + interchangeable lens market went up, from 19% to 23%.
  • Sony is now #2 on this market (#3 in FY2017), behind Canon but ahead of Nikon.
  • Sony’s share in the compact camera market went up, from 26% to 29%.
  • Sony is now #1 on this market (#2 in FY2017).
  • (it could be a typo, the data is surprising) the video camera market went down from ¥390bn to ¥300bn i.e. a decrease of 23%.
  • Sony’s share in this market remained stable: 29%.

Time to sound the bugle!

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Thanks Mistral for finding the links.

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New BCN report: Sony slowly losing market share in Japan: About time to announce new cameras!

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BCNretail published the April Japanese Full Frame market share data. There is little change from the previous March report. Sony did loose around 8% share to Nikon. While the Canon share remained steady.

The top 3 camera sales are:

1) Sony A7III 38,9%
2) EOS-RP 16,5%
3) EOS-R 12,3%

Overall the FF mirrorless sales increased by 62,7% compared to last year!

It is expected that Sony shares drop slightly. Afterall Sony had last FF camera announcement happened 15 months ago (Sony A7III). It’s about time Sony you release your new A9II and A7sIII. And I wouldn’t mind to get a new A7rIV (or A9r) too :)

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EU deals on Sandisk storage and Sony FE lenses

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Save money on WD and Sandisk storage at Amazon DE.

Sony FE lens deals:
You get the Zeiss 24-70mm FE for 579 Euro only at Amazon Italy. This lens sells for more than 700 Euro in Germany.
You get the Sony 90mm FE for 825 Euro only at Amazon Italy. This lens sells for 980 Euro in Germany.

Sony Europe launched a new up to 1.000€ cashback on cameras and lenses

Read the full details of savings on the special Amazon Germany page (Click here), on that Amazon UK page (Click here) and Amazon FR (Click below the camera name). What’s worth to be mentioned is that you get 150€ back on the A7III too!

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Meike 85mm f/1.8 FE lens in Stock for $199 at Amazon (and first review)

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The new Meike 85mm f/1.8 FE lens is in Stock for the first time at Amazon US and Amazon DE.

Christopher Frost tested this lens and writes:

Here we go with a brand new manual focus portrait lens from Chinese manufacturer Meike (according to them, the best pronunciation is ‘Maker’). It’s only for Sony’s E-mount mirrorless cameras, full-frame or APS-C. It’s a very low budget, manual focus option, but it does have /some/ electronics: camera-controlled aperture, EXIF information, and it detects when you move the focus ring so the camera can go into MF assist mode. Even inexpensive 85mm lenses tend to be quite sharp; let’s put it through my usual torture tests, and see what happens.

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(SR2) A7SIII will support: ProRes Raw + ProRes RawHQ ???

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I got this from a new source. No idea if it makes sense at all:

A7S3 Will support: ProRes Raw + ProRes RawHQ

Would be surprised to learn this will be true!!!

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EU deals: Zeiss 24-70mm FE for 579 Euro and Sony 90mm FE for 825 Euro at Amazon

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You get the Zeiss 24-70mm FE for 579 Euro only at Amazon Italy. This lens sells for more than 700 Euro in Germany.
You get the Sony 90mm FE for 825 Euro only at Amazon Italy. This lens sells for 980 Euro in Germany.

 

Sony Europe launched a new up to 1.000€ cashback on cameras and lenses

Read the full details of savings on the special Amazon Germany page (Click here), on that Amazon UK page (Click here) and Amazon FR (Click below the camera name). What’s worth to be mentioned is that you get 150€ back on the A7III too!

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