Camera & Imaging Products Association (CIPA to its friends), the Japanese photography trade organization, has published its latest camera shipping data. The latest available figures are for October 2024, and tots up the figures for total shipments of interchangeable lens cameras (ILCs) and compact cameras, as well as lenses.
The combined camera shipment shows 2024 to be way ahead of the previous couple of years, with a total of 900,628 units shipped in October 2024 alone – that's a 12.7% increase over the same month last year, with October 2023 seeing 799,184 shipments. It also comfortably beats October 2022, when 831,081 cameras were shipped during the month.
