Mapcamera reports that the Ricoh GR IIIx was the best-selling camera of January.

January Ranking of New Digital Cameras

1. Ricoh GR IIIx
2. Sony α7C II
3. Nikon Z50II
4. Fujifilm X-T50
5. Fujifilm X-T5
6. Fujifilm X100VI
7. Ricoh GR III
8. Canon EOS R5 Mark II
9. Fujifilm X-M5
10. Nikon Z f

Used Digital Camera January Ranking

1. Nikon Z50
2. Sony α7III
3. Nikon Z fc
4. Canon EOS R5
5. Nikon Z f
6. Sony α7IV
7. Ricoh GR III
8. Nikon Z6II
9. Nikon Z5
10. Sony α6400

KORIN launched a new AntiTheft But resistant camera bag on Kickstarter (Click here). They have launched successful campaigns in the past, and I’m sure this one will sell well too. If you want the ultimate peace of mind, watch this video to see how it works:

TTartisan posted this teaser image for the launch of an ‘unprecedented’ product. I don’t know if this is a lens that no one has ever made, or maybe something else entirely. In the picture you can see a Deepseek AI chat, which makes no sense to me at all:

• Question: DeepSeek, what product do you think that is?
  
• Answer from Deepseek: Am I trying to burn out my GPU?

And on Facebook/X they shared this message:

Meet TTArtisan at CP+ 2025 in Japan
📅 Date: Feb 27 – Mar 2, 2025 (10:00 – 18:00 JST)
📍 Location: 1-1-1, Minato Mirai Nishi-ku Yokohama Japan
🎪 Booth No. 49
We’ll be showcasing a new product coming soon!
Can you guess what it is?
Stay tuned for the first look! 🎉

Feel free to guess what this buzz is all about.

The Nikkei newspaper has published an article about the current state of digital camera shipments based on data from CIPA. Digicameinfo had access to the article behind the paywall and wrote this summary:

• Global shipments of digital cameras, including mirrorless single-lens cameras, are expected to recover to their highest level in nine years in 2024. The driving force behind this is the demand for “instaworthy” photos posted on social media by China’s young Generation Z. Young people who are not satisfied with smartphone cameras are purchasing high-performance products.
• The Camera and Imaging Products Association (CIPA) announced on the 3rd that global shipments of digital cameras in 2012 were 824.7 billion yen, up 15% from 2013. This is the fourth consecutive year of growth, and the highest level since 2015 (885.4 billion yen).
• The increasing sophistication of cameras pushes up product prices. The average price in the global market was about 97,000 yen in 2024, a fourfold increase over the past decade. By demonstrating capabilities not available in smartphones, it appears that the market’s shrinking trend, particularly in the high-end price range, has been halted.

It seems that China’s Generation Z is the driving force behind the recovery of the digital camera market, so we may see an increase in cameras aimed at this generation in the future.

We all miss Samsung :)

Sandisk launched a new Creator storage series you can see and preorder at BHphoto. An article about those products can be read on Explora.

BCN announced which cameras sold the most in the Japanese market in February.

1. Canon EOS R10 RF-S18-150 IS STM Lens Kit (Last month: 1st, STAY)
2. Canon EOS R50 Double Zoom Kit Black (Last month: 3rd, UP)
3. Sony VLOGCAM ZV-E10 II Double Zoom Lens Kit Black (Last month: 2nd, DOWN)
4. Canon EOS R50 Double Zoom Kit White (Last month: 7th, UP)
5. Sony VLOGCAM ZV-E10 Power Zoom Lens Kit Black (Last month: 5th, STAY)
6. Sony α6400 Double Zoom Lens Kit Black (Last month: 10th, UP)
7. Fujifilm FUJIFILM X-M5 Body Silver (Last month: Out of range, UP)
8. Fujifilm FUJIFILM X-M5 XC15-45mm Lens Kit Silver (Last month: 4th, DOWN)
9. Canon EOS Kiss M2 Double Zoom Kit Black (Last month: Out of range, UP)
10. Sony VLOGCAM ZV-E10 II Power Zoom Lens Kit Black (Last month: 6th, DOWN)
11. OM Digital Solutions OLYMPUS PEN E-P7 EZ Double Zoom Kit Silver (Last month: 21st, UP)
12. Nikon Z fc 16-50 VR Lens Kit Silver (Last month: 13th, UP)
13. Sony VLOGCAM ZV-E10 Double Zoom Lens Kit Black (Last month: 8th, DOWN)
14. Sony α6400 Double Zoom Lens Kit Silver (Last month: 31st, UP)
15. OM Digital Solutions OLYMPUS PEN E-P7 EZ Double Zoom Kit White (Last month: 5th, STAY)
16. Panasonic LUMIX G100D W Kit (Last month: 12th, DOWN)
17. Nikon Z50II Double Zoom Kit (Last month: 9th, DOWN)
18. Panasonic LUMIX G100 Standard Zoom Lens with Tripod Grip (Last month: Out of range, UP)
19. Fujifilm FUJIFILM X-M5 XC15-45mm Lens Kit Black (Last month: 11th, DOWN)
20. Canon EOS R50 RF-S18-45 IS STM Lens Kit Black (Last month: 15th, DOWN)
21. Fujifilm FUJIFILM X-T50 XC15-45mm Lens Kit Silver (Last month: Out of range, UP)
22. Canon EOS R50 RF-S18-45 IS STM Lens Kit White (Last month: 17th, DOWN)
23. Canon EOS R100 Double Zoom Kit (Last month: 22nd, DOWN)
24. Sony α7C II Zoom Lens Kit Black (Last month: 34th, UP)
25. Sony α6400 High Magnification Zoom Lens Kit (Last month: Out of range, UP)
26. Nikon Z 50 Double Zoom Kit (Last month: 37th, UP)
27. Nikon Z 30 Double Zoom Kit (Last month: 23rd, DOWN)
28. Sony VLOGCAM ZV-E10 II Double Zoom Lens Kit White (Last month: 29th, UP)
29. Panasonic LUMIX G100D K Kit (Last month: 25th, DOWN)
30. Canon EOS Kiss X10 Double Zoom Kit Black (Last month: 20th, DOWN)
31. Nikon Z fc 16-50 VR Lens Kit Black (Last month: 30th, DOWN)
32. Sony α7C II Zoom Lens Kit Silver (Last month: 35th, UP)
33. OM Digital Solutions OLYMPUS OM-D E-M10 Mark IV EZ Double Zoom Kit Silver (Last month: 45th, UP)
34. Fujifilm FUJIFILM X-M5 Body Black (Last month: Out of range, UP)
35. Sony α6700 High Magnification Zoom Lens Kit (Last month: 14th, DOWN)
36. Sony VLOGCAM ZV-E10 Power Zoom Lens Kit White (Last month: 32nd, DOWN)
37. Nikon Z 30 16-50 VR Lens Kit (Last month: 33rd, DOWN)
38. OM Digital Solutions OLYMPUS PEN E-P7 14-42mm EZ Lens Kit Silver (Last month: 50th, UP)
39. Canon EOS R6 Mark II Body (Last month: 38th, DOWN)
40. Nikon Z f 40mm f/2(SE) Lens Kit (Last month: 44th, UP)
41. Sony α7C II Body Black (Last month: 28th, DOWN)
42. Canon EOS R10 RF-S18-45 IS STM Lens Kit (Last month: 39th, DOWN)
43. Canon EOS RP/RF24-105 IS STM Lens Kit (Last month: 27th, DOWN)
44. Nikon Z8 (Last month: Out of range, UP)
45. Sony α6700 Body (Last month: 24th, DOWN)
46. OM Digital Solutions OLYMPUS PEN E-P7 14-42mm EZ Lens Kit White (Last month: Out of range, UP)
47. Nikon Z50II (Last month: 26th, DOWN)
48. Sony α7 IV Zoom Lens Kit (Last month: 48th, STAY)
49. Nikon D7500 18-140 VR Lens Kit (Last month: Out of range, UP)
50. Fujifilm FUJIFILM X-T5 Body Silver (Last month: Out of range, UP)