those numbers aren't well known, i.e. available in public sources. you can
make some intelligent guesses based on total film SLR sales that year and
knowing Pentax's market share. the corresponding medium format numbers for
2002 are 16,553 manufactured and 17,908 shipped. again, the difference is
because some manufactured the year before were shipped. in 3 years, the
Japanese medium format camera makers have saw their manufacturing volumes
diminish by a factor of 10 and the sales by a factor of at least 5.
FWIW, the 1st fiscal quarter numbers are about 10K Konica-Minolta, 20K
Pentax, and 40K Olympus DSLRs sold worldwide. there were just over 900K sold
by Japanese companies in that quarter, and nearly all of the remaining 830K
were either a Nikon or a Canon, roughly split evenly between the two.
Herb....
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kostas Kavoussanakis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 5:28 AM
Subject: Re: Enough Already!
Thanks for this Herb. Can you dig out a figure that I think would be
representative: would you know how many MZ-S were sold on the year before
the *ist-D was launched? Same for MZ-3 and/or MZ-5n.
My theory is that a new, film 645 would be heading for that market you are
mentioning, but the digital sensor changes things a lot. People suddenly
find money for it.
