On page 46 of the 3 January 2003 issue of The Economist there appears an
article titled "Has Kodak missed the moment?". Basically, the article says
that film is dying faster than Kodak expected, with the usual back-and-forth on
the future of Kodak and photography. Kodak is buying and developing all manner
of digital imaging businesses, but I think that it's far too soon to tell if
they will pull off the transition away from silver. At least they are trying.
Anyway, for me the most interesting thing in the article was a table giving
sales of digital camera in the US for the fourth quarter of 2003, broken out by
company:
Name Units MktShare Growth from 02Q3
Sony 800k 22.4% 11.1%
Kodak 625k 17.5% 66.7%
Canon 550K 15.4% 83.3%
Olympus 414k 11.6% 13.8%
Nikon 340k 9.5% 58.1%
FujiFilm 270k 7.5% -3.6%
HP 245k 6.8% 113.0%
Other 334k 9.3% -85.6%
Total 3,578k 100% 39.2%
So, in 3Q 2003, a total of 3.578 million digital cameras were slod in the US,
or about 14 million a year, and the overall digital camera market is growing by
about 40% per year. Kodak is the real comer, but Olympus isn't doing so badly.
Joe Gwinn
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