Canon top point-and-shoot and digital SLR in Japan
Advertisementjapan.internet.com recently reported on a survey conducted by goo Research into digital cameras.
Demographics
Between the 1st and 5th of April 2010 1,084 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 53.2% of the sample were male, 16.6% in their teens, 18.1% in their twenties, 21.9% in their thirties, 15.3% in their forties, 15.6% in their fifties, and 12.5% aged sixty or older.
I want to buy a digital SLR, but I’m not quite sure how I would get on with it, or whether I get enough opportunities to take photos. I’m always in awe of the skills of the numerous Japan photo bloggers such as Lee at Tokyo Times, Muza-chan, i, cjw (who needs to get a coffee table book deal!), and Danny Choo to name just a few. There’s also a flickr group for photos from Japan that hopefully should be embedded here:
Research results
First of all, 873 people, or 77.2% of the total sample, had a point-and-shoot compact digitial camera. They were asked the following two questions.
Q1: What makes of compact digital camera do you have? (Sample size=873, multiple answer)
Canon 23.7% Casio 18.0% Panasonic 14.5% Fuji Film 13.4% Sony 12.8% Olympus 12.7% Nikon 8.4% Pentax 3.2% Ricoh 2.7% Epson 1.4% Konica Minolta 1.3% Hitachi 1.2% Sanyo 1.2% Kyocera 1.0% Polaroid 0.2% Rollei 0.1% Kenko 0.0% Leica 0.0% Other 1.8% Don’t know the maker 1.9% Q2: What aspects of your primary compact digital camera are you dissatisfied with? (Sample size=, multiple answer)
Cannot take good photos in low light 24.6% Slow response to pressing the shutter 21.1% Low zoom multiplier 17.8% Heavy 15.4% No anti-shake feature 13.9% Poor-quality photos 13.7% Big 12.8% Slow power-on 11.5% Poor anti-shake feature 9.6% Slow auto-focus 9.2% Design 5.5% Other 7.3% No dissatisfaction 25.2% Next, 125 people, or 11.5% of the total sample, had a digital SLR camera. They were asked the following.
Q3: What makes of digital SLR do you have? (Sample size=125, multiple answer)
Canon 49.6% Nikon 28.8% Olympus 9.6% Sony 8.8% Pentax 6.4% Panasonic 4.0% Sigma 0.8% Mamiya 0.8% Leica 0.0% Fuji Film 0.0% Other 0.0% Don’t know the maker 2.4%
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Thanks for the kind words Ken. I’d say go for it as far as a dSLR goes. There are numerous entry level options that are good value for money, and Japan is the perfect place to buy excellent quality and very reasonably priced used gear. No reason at all to pay full price for new stuff.