Canon Tops 2024 Camera Shipments, Beating Sony

The Nikkei Industry Map 2026 has revealed the 2024 camera market share by units for each manufacturer.

  1. Canon: 3.53 million units (43.2%)
  2. Sony: 2.33 million units (28.5%)
  3. Nikon: 960,000 units (11.7%)
  4. Fujifilm: 740,000 units (9.0%)
  5. Panasonic: 280,000 units (3.4%)
  6. OM Digital: 160,000 units (1.9%)
  7. Ricoh Imaging: 70,000 units (0.8%)

In 2023 the numbers were as following:

  1. Canon: 3.34 million units (46.5%)
  2. Sony: 2 million units (27.9%)
  3. Nikon: 810,000 units (11.3%)
  4. Fujifilm: 430,000 units (6.0%)
  5. Panasonic: 260,000 units (3.6%)
  6. OM Digital: 180,000 units (2.5%)
  7. Ricoh Imaging: 60,000 units (0.8%)

Basically all manufacturers except OM Digital managed to increase the numbers of cameras sold. In general global shipments of digital cameras in 2024 were up for the first time in seven years

One more data:

CMOS image sensor global market share by value 2024

  1. Sony: 51.6%
  2. Samsung: 15.4%
  3. OmniVision: 11.9%
  4. Others: 11.9%
  5. Onsemi … 5.3%
  6. Smart Sense: 3.9%

via DClife

First close-up of the Laowa 200mm f/2.0 E/Z/EF — arriving October 1st!

The new Laowa 200mm f/2.0 FF lens release is set for October 1st! Matt Granger just published a teaser about his upcoming review. Below you can see more images of the lens:

Laowa 200mm f/2.0 FE lens specs:

  • Full Frame Autofocus lens
  • Fn button, AF/MF switch, focus limiter
  • drop in filters
  • weight is 1,6kg a
  • Coming for E/Z/EF mount.
  • Coming soon, price unkown

P.S.: The cat looks seriously dangerous!

Just announced: new Hasselblad X2D II with Lidar AF and 10 stops image stabilization


Hasselblad X2D II at B&H Photo, Amazon, Adorama, FotoKoch, Foto Erhardt, Calumet DE, WexUK.

DJI owned Hasselblad has officially unveiled the new X2D II medium format camera  (B&H Photo, Amazon, Adorama). It brings a couple of exciting new features:

  • 10-stop IBIS – That’s right. The X2D II offers the world’s most powerful in-body stabilization to date.
  • Integrated LIDAR autofocus – A world first: Hasselblad has built in a LIDAR module for ultra-precise focusing, even in challenging low-light conditions.

The camera is also LESS expensive than it’s predecessor, has a joystick (finally), new finish, better JPG engine and other improvements that make it quite a hot new release!