Grows of the Digital Camera & DSLR market.

According to data from CIPA (Camera & Imaging Products Association) digital camera shipments by CIPA members (the majority of digital camera manufacturers) are up 27% overall in the first half of this year compared to the same period last year. The largest growth coming from DSLRs, a total of 3.5 million units, up some 75% compared to the first half of last year. Despite strong growth price pressures mean that growth by value is less at around 11% for a total of $5.9 billion.


CIPA Shipment of Digital Still Cameras

January - June 2007: Units shipped by region

The overall makeup of regional shipments hasn't changed very much since last year, there has been a slight equalization between Europe and North America and the 'Others' category has grown slightly. In the first half of 2007 both Europe and North America accounted for $2.2 billion worth of digital camera shipments (13.6 million and 13.1 million units respectively).

January - June 2007: Units shipped by region / type & Year-on-Year

Compared to the same period last year North America demonstrated the largest overall growth (by unit) of 36%, closely followed by Asia at 33%. Europe slowed slightly with a growth of just 14% with the domestic market (Japan) growing 23%. Growth of DSLR shipments was up across the board; Japan up 69%, Europe up 68%, North America up 61%, Asia up 136% and Others regions up 87%.

Overall growth for the last six years

As you can see the digital camera market (thanks in no small measure to digital SLRs) continues to grow strongly with an overall 22% growth in units shipped in 2006 and a recovery from a decline by value experienced in 2005 now up 10% to a total of $12.1 billion in 2006 (roughly the same as 2004).

CIPA Regular Members :

Canon
Casio
Fujifilm
HP Japan
Konica Minolta
Mamiya
Matsushita (Panasonic)
Nidec Copal
Nikon
Nokia Japan
Olympus
Pentax
Ricoh
Sanyo
Seiko
Sigma
Sony
Tamron
Tonika

CIPA Supporting Members:

Adobe Systems
ALPS
BenQ
Brother
Carl Zeiss
Cosina
Dai Nippon Printing
eSOL
Flextronics
FotoNation
Fujinon
Fujiseimtsu
Fujitsu Labs
Fuji Xerox
Goko Camera
Hitachi
ImageLink
Kobori
Kodak Japan
Leica Camera Japan
Lexmark
Microsoft
Mitsubishi Electric
Moore Computer Consultants
NEC
Nittohkogaku
Panasonic Photo
PerkinElmer Japan
Plawa-feinwerktechnik
Sagem
Samsung Electronics
Samsung Techwin
Sea and Sea Sunpak
Seiko Instruments
Sharp
Shriro
Tomy
Toshiba

source : www.dpreview.com