Some more doomsday predictions for 2022…
The Japanese magazine “Weekly Toyo Keizai” released the New Year Merger Special Issue where they forecasted the camera industry performance for 2022:
“the market is shrinking significantly or is in a structural recession. Many companies are in the red or have a significant decline in profits.”
If you combine this with the increase of the sensor price due to the chip shortage…well things are expected to run very bad for 2022.
Moreover the latest CIPA data shows that in late 2021 sales were lower than in 2020:
Crazy: Japanese store Yodobashi says it will start shipping out the Nikon Z9 in October 2022 only!
The worldwide chip shortage and the camera high demand is pushing the next stock shipment to October 2022! And this is bad news for all camera manufacturers. If Nikon can’t ship their flagship I doubt other manufacturers will do any better in 2022 :(
The first new lens of 2022 will be the Sigma 20mm f/2.0 DG DN lens
Following the three existing DG DN primes Sigma will very soon launch their new 20mm f/2.0 DG DN E+L mount lens. Here are the specs:
- 13 lenses in 11 groups
- minimum shooting distance 22cm
- maximum shooting magnification 1: 6.7
- filter diameter 62mm
- size φ70 × 72.4mm
- weight 370g
- Suggested retail price the same as the 65mm F2
via Nokishita
IT was expected: Panasonic GH6 will be delayed til early 2022
Panasonic Japan issued the following statement:
Notice about LUMIX GH6
Thank you for your continued patronage of Panasonic products.
Regarding the mirrorless single-lens camera “LUMIX GH6” that was developed and announced on May 26, 2021 We were aiming for commercialization within 2021, but it is expected to be delayed. Currently, we are aiming for commercialization in early 2022. We apologize for any inconvenience caused to customers who are waiting for this product. Deeply apologize. December 16, 2021 Panasonic Corporation
Not really a surprise…the worldwide chip shortage will be a plague at least til 2023!