Amazon Chart (Top 20)

One Olympus and one Panasonic cameras made it into the amazon top 20 chart. Click the camera name to visit the product page on amazon:

Position Brand Camera Price
1 Canon Canon T1i Camera with 18-55mm IS Lens $719.00
2 Canon Canon XSi with18-55mm IS Lens (Black) $572.98
3 Nikon Nikon D3000 Camera with 18-55mm Lens $484.43
4 Canon Canon XS Camera with 18-55mm Lens (Black) $449.95
5 Nikon Nikon D90 Camera with 18-105mm Lens $1,028.77
6 Nikon Nikon D90 Camera (Body Only) $789.95
7 Pentax Pentax K-x Camera with 18-55mm Lens (Black) $559.00
8 Nikon Nikon D5000 Camera with 18-55mm VR Lens $699.00
9 Canon Canon 7D Camera (Body Only) $1,699.00
10 Nikon Nikon D3000 KIT $519.95
11 Nikon Nikon D300s Camera (Body Only) $1,499.00
12 Canon Canon 50D Camera with 28-135mm Lens $1,129.95
13 Canon Canon XSi Camera (Black Body Only) $485.95
14 Olympus Olympus E520 Camera with 14-42mm and 40-150mm Lenses $487.95
15 Canon Canon 50D Camera (Body Only) $929.95
16 Nikon Nikon D5000 Camera (Body Only) $552.98
17 Panasonic Panasonic GF1 Camera with 20mm Lens $1,081.95
18 Canon Canon 7D Camera with 28-135mm IS USM Lens $1,849.00
19 Canon Canon T1i Camera (Body Only) $849.00
20 Canon Canon 5D Mark II (Body Only) $2,579.00
more Panasonic and Olympus cameras…
24 Panasonic Panasonic GF1 with 14-45mm Lens $899.95
31 Olympus Olympus E-P2 Camera with 14-42mm Lens and Electronic View Finder $1,099.99
37 Olympus Olympus E-P1 Camera with 17mm f/2.8 Lens and Viewfinder (Silver) $760.00
38 Olympus Olympus E620 Camera (Body Only) $506.95

Where is the Olympus E-P2 available in Europe?


That’s strange, the was always easy to find in european shops but not so in US stores. Now with the Olympus E-P2 we have the exact opposite experience. I daily check amazon and pixmania stores and couldn’t find any!

the only exception is Amazon Germany wich has one single E-P2 in Stock!

Amazon UK has only a Soft-Display protection sheet for the Olympus E-P2 :)

Let me know if you find some stores withe the E-P2 in Stock! Thanks!

UPDATE: A first list of european shops with the E-p2 in Stock (Thanks for sending the links)
Netherland:
http://www.cameranu.nl/index.php?hg_id=258&sg_id=7883
http://www.kamera-express.nl/index.php?page=product&product=30477
Sweden:
http://www.cyberphoto.se/info.php?article=E-P217
Norway:
http://produkt.akam.no/product.php?productId=114643&cat_id=54
Germany:
http://www.fotokoch.de/

Alfred Hitchcooks Pen

Fabio sent us following images and text from the movei Topaz (Alfred Hitchcook 1969):

“A fantastic Pen-f, it starts in a sandwich and ends in a chicken:”

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Alfred yould probably love the new digital Pens :)

Japanese Top 3 brand for the year 2009!

BCNranking just published the market shares grouped by brand!

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Japanese Market share for compact cameras (non interchangeable lenses)

1 place (share) 2nd (share) 3rd (Shared)
2009 Canon (19.6%) Casio (18.6%) Panasonic (14.6%)
2008 Canon (18.3%) Casio (15.4%) Panasonic (15.2%)
2007 Canon (19.8%) Panasonic (16.1%) Sony (14.1%)
2006 Canon (21.0%) Casio (16.3%) Sony (15.2%)
2005 Canon (18.5%) Casio (14.7%) Panasonic (12.7%)

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Japanese Market share for cameras with interchangeable lenses

1 place (share) 2nd (share) 3rd (Shared)
2009 Canon (39.1%) Nikon (31.3%) Panasonic (8.7%)
2008 Canon (40.1%) Nikon (39.9%) Sony (9.2%)
2007 Nikon (43.8%) Canon (40.0%) Pentax (5.8%)
2006 Canon (44.6%) Nikon (33.6%) Pentax (9.2%)
2005 Canon (52.1%) Nikon (29.3%) Pentax (7.3%)

Thanks to MicroFourThirds Panasonic gained the third place! It is also interesting to see how much Nikon lost. I didn’t expect that.

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