On 1/13/03 7:46 PM, "Iren & Henry Chu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have been puzzled by the Jodobashi list for some time because of the poor > showing of Pentax. Thanks for answering my question. > > I agree with you that the sales direction of Jodobashi is a bit different > from Map Camera. I visited Japan several times and usually I find more > Pentax stuff in Map Camera, and in cheaper price too. Hi Henry, I am currently living in Canada, but whenever I make a trip to Japan, I never fail to stop by Shinjuku/Akihabara area, the camera capital of the world :-). I am sure you do the same. Shinjuku is where the big (or mega) camera stores are concentrated as you know, but Map Camera appears to be more dedicated to the digicam, as you pointed out. That's why I thought the Map Camera statistics might be showing truer cross section of sales, but these are all speculations on my part. They have two really mega stores there, larger than Yodobashi's and recently converted one store to a dedicated digicam store. Quite a sight! Yodobashi has some catch up to do as far as the digicam sales goes. But the top ranking of Pentax Optio was a surprise to me. I was aware that pentax was doing very well on digicam sales but not as good as the Map Camera showed. But Yodobashi usually gives a good benchmark on overall camera sales including film camera. Sony digicams are excellent products and selling very well but not quite strong enough to make top 10 volume sales. My understanding is that the memory stick is really hurting the sales. Well, that's all I know :-). Cheers, Ken
