https://www.canonnews.com:443/Home/rss/category/1633/cipaRSS documenthttps://www.canonnews.com/january-cipa-2026-great-start-to-the-year The data obtained from the Camera & Imaging Products Association (CIPA) for the month of January 2026 indicates a thriving photography market with a specific strategy of achieving high-value growth. The overall digital still camera global shipment volume for the month of January 2026 was 622,390 units. The volume recorded a healthy increase of 15.6% compared to the previous year. The market is growing on the back of a healthy mirrorless camera segment, coupled with the revival of the built-in ...]]>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 09:58:00 GMThttps://www.canonnews.com/january-cipa-2026-great-start-to-the-yearhttps://www.canonnews.com/cipa-big-comeback-for-compact-cameras-in-2025 Well, CIPA just announced the 2025 full-year data, which confirms the trend we’ve been talking about for a while now: compact cameras are making a big comeback, especially in Asia. Brief CIPA Primer The Camera & Imaging Products Association is responsible for setting many of the camera standards, testing procedures, and camera specifications that the big brands must follow (e.g., where the battery life ratings come from, etc.). The Japanese camera makers report raw shipment data ...]]>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 07:24:00 GMThttps://www.canonnews.com/cipa-big-comeback-for-compact-cameras-in-2025https://www.canonnews.com/cipa-february-2025-strong-shipments CIPA sent out its numbers for February 2025, and the numbers overall look quite good, showing excellent growth through all regions. When I first opened the report, I wondered if camera manufacturers were just getting ahead of the looming tariff war, and at least for February, that does not seem to be the case. It was a great month for the camera manufacturers. For the entire market, shipments of cameras with built-in lenses grew by 10.9%, and interchangeable lens cameras grew by 27%, ...]]>Sat, 05 Apr 2025 10:59:00 GMThttps://www.canonnews.com/cipa-february-2025-strong-shipmentshttps://www.canonnews.com/cipa-data-for-march-2019-dispelling-some-myths-89 We haven't done our deep dive into CIPA for 2019 yet, and part of that is that CIPA reorganized its data, and I'm still trying to decide on how best to handle future and historical data in our reporting. DSLR's continue their deep slide, with only 60% of units sold from year on year values when compared to March 2018. The real problem is not that DSLR's are sliding it's the fact that alarmingly mirrorless is not picking up the slack and that mirrorless isn't even treading water. ...]]>Sat, 27 Apr 2019 20:43:00 GMThttps://www.canonnews.com/cipa-data-for-march-2019-dispelling-some-myths-89https://www.canonnews.com/cipa-closes-out-2018-sluggish-44 The last CIPA report of 2018 has been released, and we see that after the rumors started with full frame mirrorless from Canon, Panasonic, Nikon the market has a whole took a step backward that continued all the way through the end of 2018. The new systems from Canon and Nikon did little to compensate for the loss of DSLR shipments (and most likely sales) through that period.  Of course, this pain is something that most likely Canon and Nikon both knew would happen once they came out with ...]]>Fri, 01 Feb 2019 18:10:00 GMThttps://www.canonnews.com/cipa-closes-out-2018-sluggish-44https://www.canonnews.com/november-cipa-the-rise-of-mirrorless-80 We haven't posted CIPA data for the past few months primarily, because all the analysis was a big "wait and see what happens when things settle down".  It's still that way even in November. Overall, for interchangeable lens cameras (ILC) we see that the trend of being below 2017 is consistently continuing.  We can hypothesize that part of this is explainable, as with the new systems released by Canon and Nikon, there's a lot of waiting and seeing what happens, and camera purchases are put ...]]>Mon, 07 Jan 2019 04:05:00 GMThttps://www.canonnews.com/november-cipa-the-rise-of-mirrorless-80https://www.canonnews.com/cipa-results-for-august-2018-a-recovery-from-july-59 We received CIPA’s data for August of 2018, and plugged it all into our spreadsheets, but first, the overall outlook.  Overall shipments rebounded a bit year on year from last month.   This is no great surprise because something strange happened with DSLR shipments to Europe in July, which has affected the year on year results.  This month we see shipments near the same level as 2017 which indicates that 2018 is pretty close to 2017’s levels and will most likely remain so for the rest of the ...]]>Fri, 05 Oct 2018 14:05:00 GMThttps://www.canonnews.com/cipa-results-for-august-2018-a-recovery-from-july-59https://www.canonnews.com/cipa-data-for-july-2018-shipments-slip-49 CIPA data for July has been released. Overall shipments have dropped significantly in July with DSLR's being shipping to Europe leading the charge.  A dramatic drop in shipments to Europe is quite a surprise, it could be simply a data anomaly and will be over-corrected next month. Overall, outside of Europe, we're not seeing much different than what we do almost every month this year, with US getting the majority of expensive mirrorless, and Europe and Asia getting the cheaper ...]]>Mon, 03 Sep 2018 14:03:00 GMThttps://www.canonnews.com/cipa-data-for-july-2018-shipments-slip-49https://www.canonnews.com/cipa-june-the-rise-of-europe-51 CIPA released the June results for the tracked shipments of Japanese camera manufacturers today, and there’s some interesting results. First the overall results for the month show a continuation of matching last year’s shipments, almost to the unit.  This trend has now basically occurred since the earthquake effect finally leveled off after the first couple of months of the year. If you missed that from our earlier reports, last year, in the first few months of the year, ...]]>Wed, 01 Aug 2018 11:42:00 GMThttps://www.canonnews.com/cipa-june-the-rise-of-europe-51https://www.canonnews.com/cipa-for-may-2018-continued-signs-that-the-market-has-leveled-65 The big takeaway for May 2018 results is that it does tend to appear that the market has indeed leveled, as the shipments for this year continue to keep pace with last year’s shipments for interchangeable lens cameras.  This spells good news for the industry that is still reeling over the continued hemorrhaging of the compact camera market.  As far as drilling into the details.  You can see that either Sony has had problems in shipping the A7 during this month as all numbers related to ...]]>Mon, 02 Jul 2018 02:45:00 GMThttps://www.canonnews.com/cipa-for-may-2018-continued-signs-that-the-market-has-leveled-65