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Fujifilm’s viral status has pushed Nikon out of the top three camera makers – but that’s not the only shakeup in the latest camera brand ranking from Japan

Fujifilm is now the third-largest camera maker in Japan, pushing Nikon down to fourth place

Digital Camera World

Digital camera sales are up, and Fujifilm just leapfrogged Nikon — here's what the numbers tell us

A new Nikkei report is encouraging reading for the camera industry, particularly Canon and Nikon —here's what we can learn from the data.

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The smartphone decimated the camera industry. Photography is finally starting to recover –but what about video?

A new report from Japan shows that the camera industry is recovering, while video has "disappeared"

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Canon's tactile photo exhibition will help visually impaired students experience photography in a “completely new way”

The camera giant has printed portraits created by visually impaired students using raised tactile ink, and displayed the works at the Royal Society for Blind Children’s Dorton College in England

Digital Camera World

A year after Canon increased production, this PowerShot compact camera is still so viral that used models are nearly twice the new cost

Canon has increased compact camera production multiple times, yet the PowerShot G7 X Mark III's viral status still makes it hard to find

Digital Camera World

Screw the wedding photos, I'm playing Doom on a DSLR camera like the good lord intended

Snap and tear? I got nuthin'.

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Is Canon getting into the smartphone game? This new patent application has raised the possibility

Canon has filed patent applications for a series of camera lenses designed for tiny, smartphone-style sensors

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Nearly half of the trendiest compact cameras in Japan have this one feature – and one of them isn’t even “compact” at over 1,000g

The Sony RX10 V was only around for one day in July, but it still made the top ten in Japan, proving the popularity of zoom

Digital Camera World

A week-old Hawaiian monk seal pup rests on its mother at a busy Waikīkī beach – and this photographer captured the rare moment without disturbing them

The tender wildlife image highlights the sixth Hawaiian monk seal birth ever recorded at the beach – and is now a finalist in a prestigious photography award

Digital Camera World

Leica makes 16 cameras – is it secretly the biggest camera brand of them all?

No longer a small boutique brand, Leica now makes 16 distinct cameras – and nobody seems to be talking about it

Digital Camera World

Now you can play Doom on this 26-year-old DSLR!

This Canon DSLR can play Doom –yes, the videogame –even though it's a 26-year-old camera, not a console

Digital Camera World

The "new" #1 compact camera in Japan has been popular for years – but the real point-and-shoot hero sits close behind at just US$99 with a retro look

Digital Camera World

GitHub programmer ports playable Doom to DSLR camera with 3-inch TFT LCD display — Canon EOS 550D with open-source Magic Lantern firmware uses camera's button as controls, even plays sound

A developer posted their Doom port for the Canon EOS 550D on GitHub. The game uses the Magic Lantern firmware add-on to run on the camera, and uses various camera buttons to play the game directly from the SD card.

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Released at No. 1, the trendiest camera right now is easy to guess – but some names are suspiciously missing from Japan's top cameras

Spending seven months as the top camera, the Sony A7 V has taken the number one spot again – but what's interesting is the names not on that list

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I’m a camera expert. I hate to be the one to say this, but camera prices are probably about to get worse

There's a startling similarity across major camera brands' financial reports right now: The rising cost of memory thanks to AI

Digital Camera World

Laowa Aksen 1-5x Ultra Macro Apo review: Up to 5x magnification for when ‘full’ macro just doesn’t cut the mustard

The Laowa Aksen 1-5x Ultra Macro Apo comes in a wide variety of mount options, enabling you to dive into the tiniest details with almost any camera

Digital Camera World

Laowa Aksen 5-10x Ultra Macro Apo review: Forget 'full' macro – this lens ramps up magnification all the way to 10x more

The Laowa Aksen 5-10x Ultra Macro Apo gives you more macro power, with anything between 5x and 10x magnification for a wide variety of mirrorless and reflex cameras

Digital Camera World

Dive first, shoot second: Underwater photography lessons from two commended filmmakers

From mastering basic dive technique to filming ocean predators, Emmy Award-winning video journalist, Emily Rhyne, and Canon Explorer of Light, Nadia Aly, give the lowdown on how to shoot underwater

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So far, Japan's #1 best-selling camera in 2026 is a 3-year-old APS-C mirrorless with some unusual shooting modes

The latest Japanese sales rankings reveal a surprise at the top – while one of the biggest new full-frame cameras only makes #8

Digital Camera World

This 14-year-old Fujifilm lens is one of the trendiest primes in Japan right now. The second-place lens? It’s an even older Canon DSLR optic

How old is too old for digital camera lenses? Four of the top ten used lenses in Japan right now are more than a decade old

Digital Camera World

These 10 cameras are getting more expensive on the used market in Japan – the biggest hike is 24.1% and it's a DSLR!

Used camera prices are rising across the Japanese market, with 88% of the models tracked by Minna Cameras increasing in price during the first half of 2026 – here are the 10 cameras that saw the biggest rises

Digital Camera World

"The Leica SL is not the most expensive camera on the market any more. Canon, Nikon and Sony all have cameras that cost as much or more than a Leica"

"The megapixel race has ended" declares Leica's Andrea Pacella, discussing the next medium format camera, the controversial M EV1 and the vital importance of manufacturer alliances

Digital Camera World

Tamron is planning 10+ new lenses for 2026 and is expanding its multi-mount strategy… just as Sony proposes buying the company

Tamron's photography business is shrinking but its own-brand lens sales are growing, pushing further into Canon RF and other mounts

Digital Camera World

A new DSLR is on the way! "Production is in progress" on Pentax's new camera

The long-awaited new DSLR "is not only speculation or still a project" but is now a camera in production

Digital Camera World

"Finest stills camera ever made" is not Japan's No.1 as this record-breaking full-frame mirrorless triumphs

Shooting 100MP images in true end-to-end HDR color, the flagship medium-format camera sits behind two full-frame models, and one dominated the chart since its release

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