[Kunzite]

I was browsing through the Japanese site, trying to make something out of all those kanji - when I noticed this survey:
http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/special/20131226_629056.html
I'll try to enumerate the figures, as Google translate won't work on images.

The number of valid responses is 7,596, but some polls allowed multiple choices. From what I understand it's about what the readers are using/owning, including stuff bought years ago. I'll skip the parts that "proves" this is a middle aged man world, and go directly to the more interesting questions.
The figures are presented as: number of answers - percentage from total answers (including "I'm not using X") - percentage as share (not including "I'm not using X").

Brand of DSLR:
+ Nikon (2598 answers - 28.5% - 33.1%)
+ Canon (2217 answer - 24.3% - 28.3%)
+ Pentax (1311 answers - 14.6% - 16.7%)
+ Not using a DSLR (1268 answers - 13.9% - N/A)
+ Sony (A mount) (713 answers - 7.8% - 9.1%)
+ Olympus (672 answers - 7.4% - 8.6%)
+ Other (182 answers - 2.0% - 2.3%)
+ Sigma (138 answers - 1.5% - 1.8%)
+ Leica (S mount) (9 answers - 0.1% - 0.1%)
(Total: 9108 answers - 7840 DSLR users)

The mirrorless poll:
+ Not using a mirrorless (3329 answers - 37.2% - N/A)
+ Olympus (1665 answers - 18.6% - 29.6%)
+ Sony (1034 answers - 11.6% - 18.4%)
+ Panasonic (997 answers - 11.1% - 17.7%)
+ Nikon (543 answers - 6% - 9.7%)
+ Pentax (483 answers - 5.4% - 8.6%)
+ Fujifilm (405 answers - 4.5% - 7.2%)
+ Ricoh (GXR) (261 answers - 2.9% - 4.6%)
+ Canon (217 answers - 2.4% - 3.9%)
+ Other (17 answers - 0.2% - 0.3%)
(Total: 8951 answers - 5622 mirrorless users)

Digital rangefinder poll:
+ Not using a digital rangefinder (7402 answers - 97.2%)
+ Leica (M) (133 answers - 1.7% - 63.3%)
+ Epson (77 answers - 1% - 36.7%)
(Total: 7612 answers - 210 digital rangefinder users)

Interchangeable lens:
+ Sigma (2990 answers - 14.5%)
+ Nikon (2823 answers - 13.6%)
+ Tamron (2445 answers - 11.8%)
+ Canon (2300 answers - 11.1%)
+ Olympus (1935 answers - 9.4%)
+ Pentax (1525 answers - 7.4%)
+ Panasonic (1331 answers - 6.4%)
+ Sony (1252 answers - 6.1%)
+ Tokina (777 answers - 3.8%)
+ Carl Zeiss (768 answers - 3.7%)
+ Cosina (759 answers - 3.7%)
+ Other (691 answers - 3.3%)
+ Fujifilm (373 answers - 1.8%)
+ Not using interchangeable lenses (360 answers - 1.7%)
+ Leica (360 answers - 1.7%)
(Total: 20689 answers)

Integrated lens digital cameras:
+ Canon (1781 answers - 14.7%)
+ Sony (1525 answers - 12.6%)
+ Not using integrated lens digital cameras (1520 answers - 12.6%)
+ Fujifilm (1244 answers - 10.3%)
+ Ricoh (excluding GXR) (1174 answers - 9.7%)
+ Panasonic (1080 answers - 8.9%)
+ Nikon (1052 answers - 8.7%)
+ Olympus (1005 answers - 8.3%)
+ Pentax (519 answers - 4.3%)
+ Casio (514 answers - 4.3%)
+ Sigma (385 answers - 3.2%)
+ Other (207 answers - 1.7%)
+ Leica (72 answers - 0.6%)
+ General Imaging / General Electric (13 answers - 0.1%)
(Total: 12091 answers)

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Last edited by Kunzite; 12-26-2013 at 11:32 AM. Reason: Fix "excluding GXR" for Ricoh integrated lens cameras

[lytrytyr]

Interesting.

Should that be Ricoh (GR) in the "Integrated lens digital cameras" category?

[Kunzite]

That's a question someone who knows Japanese could answer. Maybe the Ricoh entries in Integrated Lens Digital Cameras are "excluding GXR", I couldn't read that part properly.

L.E. My apologies - it is indeed "excluding GXR". Looking in a dictionary is not so difficult after all

[JPT]

I think this shows more about the readership of DC Watch than the market in general. The reason the respondents were 99% men might be that it is gear and hardware site and also that they have a seperate "women's DC Watch" website.

But in any case, the camera business is much less of a Canikon world than it was even a few years ago. In part it is the shift to mirror less cameras, where Canikon are weak, but also because Ricoh are being more aggressive in the DSLR field.

Interesting that Pentax DSLRs are so far ahead of Sony DSLT. I think people can see the writing on the wall for A mount. Sony have almost completely stopped marketing for it in favour of E mount.

They have categorised GXR as mirror less ILC and the fixed lens cameras wound be GR, GR Digital models, as well as GX, CX, PX and even G700 models. These have mostly disappeared since the merger, but they were widely available and the CX in particular was a popular model as a photographer-friendly travel compact.

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Last edited by JPT; 12-26-2013 at 05:37 PM.