Originally posted by troenaas I like to see stats, not undocumented claims.
The average price per unit (CIPA data) shows an increase in price-per-unit for MILC bodies going from 2019 to 2020. This is a trend that already started the previous year.
That's consistent with a shift from APS-C to entry-level FF - APS-C bodies haven't increased in price massively in a year, while we're seeing much cheaper FF bodies (but still more expensive than APS-C).
In fact, the same trend is even more pronounced for the single point of January 2021 (
http://www.cipa.jp/stats/documents/e/d-202101_e.pdf), with DSLRs
falling in average value even further. The only DSLRs Canikon are selling are the entry level ones and those don't carry the business.
Here (
http://www.cipa.jp/stats/documents/e/s-2020_e.pdf) you can see the lenses in 2020:
-35mm (FF) and larger format was down by 25%
-smaller than 35mm format
down by 41%. If that doesn't mean that APS-C and M43 are in a precarious position, I don't know what it means. By the way, the average manufacturer's sale price of an APS-C lens is 10K yen, which is 76€. It's
the kit lenses. And those aren't making any money.