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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
James Artaius

Sony owns 42% of the image sensor market… while Canon only has 1%

A Sony image sensor sits inside an Olympus PEN E-P7 camera

There's an image sensor inside every camera, phone and device that records stills or video – and Sony has a 42% chokehold on this market. Yet Canon, despite being the biggest camera manufacturer in the world, only has 1% of it. 

What's more, the only other manufacturer that makes its own sensors, Panasonic has less than a 1% share of the market – which was valued at $21.29 billion (approximately £16.67 billion / AU$32.35 billion) in 2022. 

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