When it comes to finding camera sales facts and figures for individual brands it is quite difficult. Except when it comes to Japan. BCN publish weekly and monthly sales charts for both interchangeable lens and compact cameras in Japan. These figures come from retail sources about the actual cameras sold not just produced or shipped.

These figures give valuable insight as to which brands are leading the camera markets, at least in Japan. No sales figures are provided just the ranking of camera against camera. One snag with these rankings is that it treats the same camera in different kit forms as different cameras. So in the interchangeable lens camera rankings a single camera can have more than one listing. In effect a particular camera body could be the highest selling yet not be in the top spot. So we have to take that into account before listing the winners.

Top Ranking Brands for Dec 2015 - according to how many ranking places feature in the top 50

Interchangeable Lens Cameras

These are the top ranking models. (US, EU)

For the compact cameras again there is a difficulty in highlighting the order because the same camera in different colors gets more than one listing. Also so many models are very similar. So these are the top selling compact cameras overlooking the color and minor differences.

Compact Cameras

These are the top ranking models. (US, EU)