Old numbers. What about 2006? Pentax current share of the Japan market is 10%. Canon has dropped to 35%. Paul On Feb 1, 2007, at 5:30 PM, Digital Image Studio wrote:
> On 02/02/07, Micah Kleit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> One of the messages that didn't get on the list was a response to a >> question about Pentax's business. I was wondering about Pentax's >> market share outside of the US; I forgot where I saw it (it may have >> been Pentaxlife.com), but Pentax has a 10% share of the camera market >> in its home market, which seems to be pretty good given their >> competitors. > > As of March 2006 digital cameras accounted for 45.3% of Pentax sales, > and at that point Pentax was at the bottom of the markets share > ratings with less than 3% of the worldwide market for digital cameras. > DSLR global market shares for CY2005 put Pentax at 4.7%, Canon 53.3% > and Nikon at 28.3%. Thing are only going to get tougher in the DSLR > market, sales will peak in 2008 and start tailing off in 2009 and > prices will start making competition for market share aggressive, so > anyone on thin margins will suffer badly. Just my opinion of course > ;-) > > -- > Rob Studdert > HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA > Tel +61-2-9554-4110 > UTC(GMT) +10 Hours > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ > Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
