CIPA published the outlook for 2017 (PDF file here):

Total shipments (the cumulative total of shipments from January to December) of digital
cameras in 2017 are projected to be 21.70 million units, a year-on-year decline of
10.3%.

Broken down by product-type, shipments of digital cameras with built-in lenses are
projected to be 10.50 million units (a year-on-year fall of 16.7%). Of those, shipments
to Japan and those to regions outside of Japan are projected to be 1.80 million units (a
year-on-year decrease of 18.2%) and 8.70 million units (a year-on-year decline of
15.5%), respectively. Shipments of digital cameras with an interchangeable lens are
projected to be 11.20 million units (a year-on-year fall of 3.4%). Of those, shipments to
Japan and those to regions outside of Japan are projected to be 1.20 million units (a
year-on-year decline of 7.7%) and 10.00 million units (a year-on-year decrease of 2.9%),
respectively.

Shipments of lenses for cameras with interchangeable lenses are projected to fall 6.2%
year on year to 18.00 million units. Of those, shipments to Japan and those to regions
outside of Japan are projected to decline 8.0% year on year to 2.30 million units and
6.0% year on year to 15.70 million units, respectively.

In addition to the step-up demand from users who have come to enjoy taking photos
because of smartphones and want digital cameras, expectation for another step-up
demand from the existing users of digital cameras who replace with or buy better digital
cameras will remain high. Therefore, it is expected that demand for digital cameras with
interchangeable lenses will remain firm compared to that for digital cameras with
built-in lenses.

Those are the very first images of the new Leica M, Zeiss Otus, Mamiya, Schneider-Kreuznach to Fuji GFX adapters. You can also see image samples shot with it and as you can see those lenses do really cover the full GFX image circle:

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via Fujirumors via GFX facebook group.

BHphoto postponed the shipment start of the GFX from February 23 to March 1. But don’t worry, while some delay or production shortage can be expected we will not get a six months delay like it happened with the Hasselblad X1D.

CIPA just plublished the camera shipment data for the months of December. Ans look here folks: After four years of continuous camera shipment reduction this is the first time I see that camera shipments in one month were better(!) than the month of the year before!

And now to two more interesting details:

1. The graph here on top show the system cameras shipment. And in December the number of camera shipment were greater than in 2015 and in 2014!!!

2) Surprise: Even the December compact camera shipments were greater than the year before!

Finally it seems we have reached the bottom of the four-year long camera market crisis?