These are the 2016 companies market shares in Japan

These are the 2016 sales market shares in Japan (Source BCNranking). The 2017 Award for the best selling mirrorless system cameras goes to Olympus (despite a big 8% loss in share). Canon made a big jump forward (+5%) and Sony lost 7% share.

Here are the rankings for the other categories:

 

Thanks Edina!

Hot week coming: Leica will announce the M10 on Jan 18. Fuji big announcement day on Jan 19.

We got two major announcements next week and here are the latest details:

1) Leica will announce the M10 on January 18. The camera will feature many minor improvements (like better viewfinder) but the sensor will be the “usual” 24MP FF.

2) Fuji has a big announcement day on January 19. We know we will get the GFX pricing, X-t20, X100F and new XF lenses. Latest rumors say there will be a firmware update too. And Fujirumors also posted the X-T20 specs.

And we expect more announcements from Sony, Panasonic and Olympus right before the CP+ show. More about that soon on MR…