Canon loses SLR share, as Nikon surges | Underexposed - CNET News
When it comes to the strategically distinguished and self-indulgently-growing furnish of SLR cameras, Canon remained No. 1 worldwide in 2007 but wrecked share in to Nikon, new statistics show.
Canon sold 3.18 million unattached-lens reflex cameras in 2007 compared with Nikon's 2.98 million, according to a over released Tuesday by superstore researcher IDC. That represents a 42.7 percent and 40 percent piece, separately, of the 2007 SLR Stock Exchange. It's a much narrower frontier for Canon than in 2006, when it had 46.7 percent of the bazaar, compared with Nikon's 33 percent.
Nikon SLR shipments grew at a 71.1 percent status, much faster than Canon's 29.3 percent grade, IDC said. To be inevitable, section shipments don't over another formidable orientation of market cut--gain, which IDC didn't detail. But Nikon released competitive higher-end models, the D3 and D300, in the inferior merchandise half of 2007, so there's more than enough of difficulties on Canon there, too....
