Camera & Imaging Products Association(CIPA) is an organization in Japan made up of members engaged in the production or distribution of silver halide cameras, digital cameras, and related devices, instruments and software. They recently announced the data on the shipment and production numbers by product-type for January 2007, compared to January 2006.

Once again, the SLR camera shipment went up an amazing 172%, the fastest growing among all categories of digital camera. The total SLR camera shipment units went up to 483, 195 and total sales amount is around US$ 286,270,740. If you look at the destination of shipment of these SLR cameras, around 40% are shipped to Europe, 34% are shipped to North America and the rest 26% are shipped to Asia. Interesting to see such a high 40% shipment are for the European’s market.

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