Digital SLR shipments rose 51.3% during the first nine months of this year compared with the year before, according to the latest industry figures from Japan.
Manufacturers? revenues from DSLRs shot up by 30.2% from January-September, according to statistics released by Japan?s Camera and Imaging Products Association (CIPA).
Shipment of all types of digital still cameras, including compacts, increased by 27.6% over the same period, while revenue rose 17.1%.
Exports of DSLRs to Europe rose by 54.2%; to North America by 34.8% and to Asia by 95.3%.
However, production of cameras with less than 6-million-pixels fell to just 26.6% of their 2006 level.
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