Originally posted by eurostar Can you explain what have you combined? At first I believed you summed shipment to abroad (CIPA) and Japan domestic sales (BCN), but units sold should be in the millions...
Japan is about 1,6 million units out of 13 million units worldwide.
It is also worthwhile noting that the Japanese market is the most advanced DSLM market with having 1/5 of the global DSLM sales, whereas it only has about 1/10 of global DSLR sales.
In Japan the DSLR
SLM ratio ist about 1,5:1, where in the americas it is 5:1.
So the total units of DSLM sold in Japan can not be extrapolated to be representative for any other market region. It is grossly overinflated there. So the curves for Sony, Olympus, Panasonic look even worse in other regions.
Simple:
- Take the annual CIPA camera sales report; for 2016 I took the January-to-November partial numbers and added the November numbers one more time to make it 12 months worth.
- look at column "Shipments to Japan" once for SLR and once for DSLM; those are the full unit sales figures; only 649,284 pieces of DSLM were sold in Japan in all of 2015.
- Then multiply those total units with market share values given by BCN (as mentioned before: BCN figure year N corresponds to CIPA figure year N-1
In the end you get these graphs: