Three-quarters of the best way by means of 2025, digital camera gross sales stay on monitor to have their greatest 12 months since 2019. However, whereas compact cameras have been a key trade development all year long, the mirrorless digital camera class can also be exhibiting progress, based on the most recent numbers from the Digital camera and Imaging Merchandise Affiliation (CIPA).
The numbers for September point out that digital camera shipments total for the primary 9 months of the 12 months are 110.5% of the earlier 12 months’s information. Cameras with built-in lenses – in different phrases, compacts and bridge cameras – are the class with probably the most progress to date for 2025, with shipments at 122.4% of the earlier 12 months’s numbers.
However whereas compacts have proven the most important bounce from the earlier 12 months percentage-wise, mirrorless stays the class with probably the most shipments, sending out greater than 4.5 million our bodies in comparison with the mounted lens class’s 1.67 million for the primary 9 months of 2025.
Mirrorless numbers aren’t rising fairly as quick as compact cameras, although, hitting 112.8% of final 12 months’s numbers for the primary 9 months of the 12 months.
Evaluating the numbers month-by-month, nonetheless, mirrorless cameras noticed the most important bounce in September. Complete digital camera shipments noticed a 124.1% enhance from August, with built-in lens cameras at 110.7% and interchangeable lens cameras at 129.1% of the earlier month’s information.
The class that’s not exhibiting progress in 2025 is, unsurprisingly, the DSLR. Manufacturing is 75.1% of final 12 months’s numbers for the primary 9 months of the 12 months and 74.4% for shipments. simply September, DSLR shipments had been 104.7% of the earlier month however simply 66.9% in comparison with the identical month final 12 months.
At present, DSLR shipments are about 527,000 – which is about 10.4% of the entire shipments for interchangeable lens cameras for the 12 months to date.
Complete worldwide shipments for all cameras by means of September 2025 are at 6.74 million. The final time numbers had been that top by September was in 2019, when gross sales had been greater than 11.2 million – numbers illustrating that, whereas digital camera gross sales are up, shipments nonetheless aren’t close to pre-COVID numbers.
CIPA has solely not too long ago began monitoring shipments by sensor dimension, a statistic that will show attention-grabbing sooner or later as soon as there’s a earlier 12 months’s information to match to. In September alone, interchangeable lens cameras with a sensor smaller than full body shipped greater than 411,000 our bodies. The pricier full-frame or greater cameras shipped over 235,000 that month.
CIPA information doesn’t embrace each single digital camera shipped, however tracks the manufacturing and shipments of taking part firms, an inventory that features Canon, OM System, Ricoh, Sigma, Fujifilm, Nikon, Panasonic and Sony, amongst others.
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