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Compact cameras still live well
  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev
    Taiwan-based makers will ship a total of 60.604 million digital cameras in 2012, increasing 3.66% from 2011 and accounting for 49.5% of global shipments, according to Digitimes Research.

    Ability Enterprise will account for 42.2% of Taiwan's shipments in 2012, followed by Altek with 33.2%, Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) with 19.5% and Asia Optical with 5.1%.

    Nikon will be the largest client accounting for 20.5% of the 2012 shipments, followed by Fujifilm with 16.3%, Sony with 13.9%, Eastman Kodak with 12.4%, Olympus with 9.8%, Samsung Electronics with 7.1% and Casio with 6.1%.

    A total of 45% of the digital cameras will be 16-megapixel CCD models, 30% for 14-megapixel CCD, 15% for 16-megapixel CMOS, and 10% for 12-megapixel CCD or CMOS

    As we can see, Fujifilm and Kodak are making and selling quite a number of cheap small cameras.
    Despite professionals(tm) claims.

    Via: http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20111129VL200.html
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