Subject: Re: Pentax and Casio to merge?
Dear all, The sales figures from Jodobashi (which is one of the larger camera chain retailer in Japan) suggest differently. Digital cameras from Pentax seldom enter into the top 10: http://www.digitalcamera.jp/html/yodobashi/yodo-rank.htm It is very hard to believe that Sony was not included in any of the top 10 cameras in Takeshita's list. Regards, Henry Chu 13/1/2003 KT Takeshita wrote: BTW, one of the largest camera franchise published their best 10 sales ranking of digital cameras for the last fiscal half of 2002. Just for your entertainment. Surprise, surprise! 1st Pentax Optio 330GS Explosive sales. Very Pentax-like compactness. Swivelling monitor is excellent. 2nd Nikon D100 Excellent body construction. Reduction of price by less initial options worked well. Good constant sales. 3rd Minolta DiMage Xi Shot up to 3rd ranking despite it was released only in Nov. Thin stylish body. Switch campaign (X to Xi) also worked. 4th Canon IXY digital 200a Excellent ranking despite the full model change to IXY320 in Oct. === _ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail
Re: Subject: Re: Pentax and Casio to merge?
On 1/13/03 3:36 AM, Iren Henry Chu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The sales figures from Jodobashi (which is one of the larger camera chain retailer in Japan) suggest differently. Digital cameras from Pentax seldom enter into the top 10: http://www.digitalcamera.jp/html/yodobashi/yodo-rank.htm It is very hard to believe that Sony was not included in any of the top 10 cameras in Takeshita's list. Hi Folks, I am aware of the Yodobashi ranking in www.digitalcamera.jp, but it is a snapshot of sales in any given week. The list I quoted was map camera's which covers a longer span of 6 months average of the last year with better explanation why certain models sold well . Yodobashi is not the price leader while the digital camera is currently a price market. If you see their ranking in November, for example, Pentax showed up. Like Sony did not show up in Map's as a volume sales item, Yodobashi did not show Pentax. Each store franchise has different promotions but these lists show overall trend. But the point was that Pentax Optio series digicam was a big success in any measure. Looking through some of the Japanese camera magazines, it is indeed one of the top sellers in what is called compact digicam (i.e., PS) segment. Cheers, Ken
Re: Subject: Re: Pentax and Casio to merge?
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
