The 20 March issue of Forbes magazine has an
interview with Hiroshi Ono of Sanyo. Much big
news in a small article:
1. Unbeknownst to most of us, Sanyo has been
making digicams for Nikon, Olympus and others
who put their brand name on the camera. Sanyo is
now the world leader in digicam production
with 400f the market.
2. Current market is about $3 billion.
3. Digicam market is growing at a rate of 600er
year.
4. 5.4 million digicams sold in 1999, 7.5 to be
sold in 2000, 10 million to be sold in 2001.
5. All digicams are made in Japan except for
Polaroid which is made in Taiwan.
6. Digicams to outsell film cameras by 2001 in
Japan and by 2002 in North America.
7. “By 2002 or 2003, digital cameras will
overtake film in resolution.” Hiroshi
Ono
8. This fall Sanyo will introduce a
magneto-optical storage drive that will cost only
1/6th as much
as current flash memories and have ten times the
capacity. Each 730MB disk to cost $20.
9. “Film cameras are likely to disappear by
2005 or 2010 at the latest.” Hiroshi
Ono
Looks like film cameras will become a market
oddity even sooner than most digicam owners have
been predicting, and A LOT SOONER than the film
diehards have been stating.
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