I just read this in the Digital Photo newsletter....
Editor's Notes
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Acoording to Reuters, *Nikon* will increase production of its D70 dSLR nearly 30 percent, from 70,000 to 90,000 units monthly. Nikon Corp. managing director Makoto Kimura told Reuters he expects to produce up to 100,000 units monthly by next year, depending on what products Olympus, Konica and Pentax unveil. Nikon expects its dSLR sales in the year to March 2005 to reach one million units, more than triple its figures for March 2003-2004. In the same period, it expects total digicam sales to climb 44 percent to 7.8 million units.
Nikon's compact film camera sales have dropped from a peak of 1.9 million units annually in 1994 to a projected 50,000 units worldwide in the current business year. Kimura-san said Nikon doesn't plan to stop producing film SLRs, but may drop its compact film camera line next year, claiming there "really is no region in the world where you can do good business in compact film cameras anymore."
Editor's Notes
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Acoording to Reuters, *Nikon* will increase production of its D70 dSLR nearly 30 percent, from 70,000 to 90,000 units monthly. Nikon Corp. managing director Makoto Kimura told Reuters he expects to produce up to 100,000 units monthly by next year, depending on what products Olympus, Konica and Pentax unveil. Nikon expects its dSLR sales in the year to March 2005 to reach one million units, more than triple its figures for March 2003-2004. In the same period, it expects total digicam sales to climb 44 percent to 7.8 million units.
Nikon's compact film camera sales have dropped from a peak of 1.9 million units annually in 1994 to a projected 50,000 units worldwide in the current business year. Kimura-san said Nikon doesn't plan to stop producing film SLRs, but may drop its compact film camera line next year, claiming there "really is no region in the world where you can do good business in compact film cameras anymore."
