Monday, January 5, 2009

GX200 and Alpha 900: 2008 Popular Cameras in Japan

Japan's highly-regarded DC Watch website has published the voting results for the most popular DSLRs and compacts within the country in 2008. GX 200 is voted the second most popular compact in the Japan market. Well done again, Ricoh.

First, for compacts, the votes given to the runners-up are really close. The winner is DP1, which actually is larger in its sensor size and in a class of its own. For those with comparable sensor sizes, namely, the Canon G10, Ricoh GX200 and Panasonic LX3, their respective votes account for 22.5%, 22.5% (both first runners-up) and 22.3% (second runner-up) of the total votes. It is interesting to note that Nikon has met its tragic waterloo with the P6000 favoured by only 9.4% voters. The P6000 is supposedly in the same class as the G10, GX200 and LX3.

For the DSLR results, it is somewhat surprised to see G1 topping the list, followed closely by Nikon D700 and farther away by Sony Alpha 900, which is also our favourite system. Canon does not fare really well in the voting with its high-powered products in 2008 IMO.

2 comments:

Marco said...

Very interesting stats. Would love to see the same for Europe and for the US. There are probably some surprising differences.

Nevin said...

Probably, Canon will get a landslide vote of popularity in the EU and US market.