Who's #1? Not Canon or Nikon.

wxwax

In the United States, the leading digital camera seller isn't Canon or Nikon. It's Kodak.

In the second quarter of 2005, Kodak extended its share of the digital camera market by more than 5%, to a category leading 23.8%. Even more impressively, it sold 51% more cameras than in 2Q '04.

Second in the US market is Canon, Sony third.

Worldwide, Kodak is third, behind Sony and Canon.

Here's the story.

DJ-S1

Yabbut - you can't swing a dead cat without hitting someone with a Rebel around their neck. Everywhere I go - ball games, Kennedy Space Center, parks - it's really amazing how many I see considering how many different options are available.

wxwax

Two things surprise me. The first is that Canon isn't #1 in the US or worldwide. The second is that Nikon is so low in the US market, below even Olympus, HP and Fuji.

gluwater

This is pretty surprising, Everyone I know with a digital P&S has either Canon(majority), Olympus, or Sony. And then there is my uncle with his 1.0MP HP . I wonder what the numbers are for just DSLR's?

Nick

wxwax

gluwater wrote:

This is pretty surprising, Everyone I know with a digital P&S has either Canon(majority), Olympus, or Sony. And then there is my uncle with his 1.0MP HP . I wonder what the numbers are for just DSLR's?

Nick

I believe canon has a very healthy lead in the dSLR market.

colourbox

Yeah, well, we here may not represent the majority. It might be easier to understand the "Kodak majority" as the same masses who don't protest questionable government policies and who are not above assaulting their fellow citizens just to get a beat-up old iBook for $50.

Or are they that wrong? The Kodak reviews I've seen have been positive.

dragon300zx

colourbox wrote:

Yeah, well, we here may not represent the majority. It might be easier to understand the "Kodak majority" as the same masses who don't protest questionable government policies and who are not above assaulting their fellow citizens just to get a beat-up old iBook for $50.

Or are they that wrong? The Kodak reviews I've seen have been positive.

Yup those darn red states. Go and mess everything up they do.

wxwax

Now how the heck did politics get into this?

colourbox, I'm the same as you, from what I've read the ease of use of the Kodak systems has a lot to do with their appeal in the lower price categories.

dragon300zx

when is politics not involved.

Kodak makes great camera's. My first digi was kodak. They have some decent pro level camera's but their main draw I would think would be the ease of their point and shoot consumer cameras. Low pricing, decent quality, and simple use that any monkey can figure out, even my office manager could use a kodak (I think).

colourbox

wxwax wrote:

Now how the heck did politics get into this?

Actually, politics shouldn't have gotten into this. My point was more that dedicated photographers (which is who we are here) have different priorities than consumer photographers, and Kodak's done quite well at appealing to consumers in the USA. I brought up the iBook thing as an extreme example of consumers prioritizing low price above all other considerations including personal safety.

Also, I don't subscribe to the whole red state/blue state thing. It's not true. The country is more divided between its liberal urban areas vs. its conservative rural areas, in any state.

Khaos

The number one consumer of point and shoots are women. Kodak has targeted that segment sucessfully.