The camera sales ratings from Japan, Sony no longer no:1. Canon clawing back up but may do the cripple hammer again when they have the upper hand. At 8:29 Olympus with 14% market share and Nikon no where in sight.
This is the record of BCN Awards for a few years.
BCN AWARD 2018
Rank 1 Olympus (27.7% share)
Rank 2 Canon (21.3% share)
Rank 3 Sony (20.2% share)
BCN AWARD 2019
Rank 1 Canon (31.6% share)
Rank 2 Olympus (23.5% share)
Rank 3 Sony (22.7% share)
BCN AWARD 2020
Rank 1 Canon (30.9% share)
Rank 2 Sony (25.9% share)
Rank 3 Olympus (23.4% share)
BCN AWARD 2021
Rank 1 Sony (27.4% share)
Rank 2 Canon (23.8% share)
Rank 3 Olympus (23.4% share)
BCN AWARD 2022
Rank 1 Sony (32% share)
Rank 2 Canon (28.2% share)
Rank 3 OM Digital Solutions (12.7% share)
BCN AWARD 2023
Rank 1 Canon (31.7% share)
Rank 2 Sony (29.4% share)
Rank 3 OM Digital Solutions (14.3% share)
The Olympus Camera Division business lost hundreds of millions of US dollars and cannot turn a profit for 3 years prior to being sold.
In June 2020, Olympus announced the end of the Olympus Camera Division.
What does this mean?
It means as far as business survival is concerned, the BCN "AWARD" & % market share (in Japan) are useless.
Better to read this book.
Credit: amazon.com
Don't trust too much what you read on Internet about "surveys", especially internal surveys. + "awards".
Much of it is rubbish. Instead watch what happens to the company - does it close shop and sell away the business.
Watch what they do - not what they say. That is - does M43 have a future?
Did you read about the Singaporean lady who got badly bitten by bed bugs in LiT Hotel in Bangkok?
Well, if you search the Internet hotel websites, all you get are rave reviews and glowing praise left by posters who claim to have stayed there.
That's right - it seems the reviews are mostly FAKE. Or "paid for".
This type of Blatant Lies happens in the Hotel business and of course also in the Camera business.
It takes 5 to 10 years to build a brand. To get brand recognition by the buying public.
That was why OMDS first camera OM-1 after 2020 is branded "Olympus".
OMDS was afraid of the massive rejection of an unknown brand.
Do they really expect new buyers to buy a strange camera labeled " OM System " on the camera body ?
What kind of a lousy, lifeless, schmuck brand name is that, anyway? That name was created by an office politician and not by a marketing genius.
Now that they tried to pull that stunt on the buying public, the OM System OM-5 ended in failure. With widespread criticism.
Imagine some one trying to sell a soft drink named "Coca System".
Or a phone named "Apple System".
All will end up in the dustbin.
The answer to this thread's question.
MFT has no future.
Sharp abandoned its proposed MFT camera after it realised it had made a fatal error to choose the MFT format.
In 2016, Sharp with more than a century history was sold to Foxconn at a bargain basement price. Serves them right.
Panasonic must learn from the demise of Olympus Camera Division and Sharp Corporation.
Panasonic must abandon MFT ASAP before it becomes the Next Victim.