December best sellers at Yodobashi store: Nikon Z9 is the best selling Nikon in the list

Capa Camera has published the best-selling devices of the first half of December in its Yodobashi store. It’s a good indicator about how the Christmas sales are going:

Best selling cameras:

  1. Canon EOS R5
  2. Sony Alpha 7 IV
  3. Canon EOS R6
  4. Sony Alpha 7C
  5. Nikon Z9
  6. Sony Alpha 1
  7. Canon EOS R7
  8. Sony Alpha ZV-E10
  9. Nikon Z6 II
  10. Fujifilm X-T4

Best selling lenses:

  1. Sony FE 28-70mm F2 GM
  2. Tamron 28-200mm F/2.8-5.6 Di III RXD (E-mount)
  3. Sony FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II
  4. Canon RF100-400mm F5.6-8 IS USM
  5. Canon RF70-200mm F2.8 L IS USM
  6. Sony FE 70-200mm F2.8 GM OSS II
  7. Leica Apo-Summicron-M f2/35mm ASPH
  8. Canon RF24-70mm F2.8 L IS USM
  9. Canon RF50mm f1.8 STM
  10. Sony FE 16-35mm F2.8 GM

Interesting tidbits:

  • 4 Sony cameras, 3 Canon cameras, 2 Nikon and 1 Fuji camera made it into the top
  • 5 E-mount lenses in the top 10
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Nikon Interview at the 2024 Photo Show: “The Z6 III is more the little brother of the Z8 than a direct successor to the Z6 II”

The French website Phototrend had a chat with Nicolas Gillet, Marketing and Communications Director at Nikon France. Here are a couple of notes about what he said:

  • More generally, the market fell a little on the full frame at the beginning of the year. It has stabilized in recent months, but the market is such that today, the launch of a new product can change the size of the market punctually.
  • Over 12 cumulative rolling months, the Nikon Z8 is the first in our portfolio. The Nikon Zf comes behind, because these are products that have lived for 12 months so it obviously counts. The Nikon Z6 III is also doing very well: it has only 2-3 months of sales and we are very confident.
  • We are on a sort of compromise between price and performance, which allows us to put a much more modern sensor in this Z6 range. This makes us say that the Z6 III is rather the little brother of the Z8 than a direct successor to the Z6 II.

Image of all new 7Artisans Z-mount autofocus lenses

A reader (Thanks!) sent me this image from the IBC show in Amsterdam. It’s a posted displaying all six 7Artisans autofocus Z-mount lenses. The new lenses on top of the existing 50 and 85mm primes are:

AF 35mm F2.8
AF 40mm F2.8
AF 24mm F1.8
AF 35mm F1.8