The rise of the compact camera has created a long list of trendy cameras that are hard to find in stock. One app for buying the hardest-to-find gear in Japan has found that the most popular cameras in the last seven months are almost exclusively fixed lens compacts – with only one mirrorless in the top ten.
The insight comes from Minna Camera, a popular app in Japan for buying and selling camera gear. For the research, Minna only looked at cameras that were sold as new-in-box, omitting the used sales on the platform, tallying sales between November 6, 2025, and June 13, 2026.