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10 best-selling mirrorless cameras in 2022 so far: Canon is still the daddy

abraham smithAugust 18, 2022

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The list of Japan’s 10 best-selling mirrorless cameras of 2022, from January to June, has just been released by BCN Retail, the market data numbers cruncher.

It’s no big surprise that Canon is at the top of the sales charts. After all, it’s the industry’s biggest camera maker with a stranglehold that stretches across DSLRs (opens in new tab)mirrorless cameras (opens in new tab)Compact (opens in new tab)PTZ cameras (opens in new tab)… if it has a camera in it and it’s not a phone, Canon probably sells it (and lots of it).

However, as always, this chart serves as an important reminder of which cameras the majority of the market is actually buying – not the cameras that we as photo and videography experts do think people buy. More is the point, it’s a reminder for anyone wondering why Canon is still sticking with its EOS M system, given how unbridledly popular these cameras are.

The Canon EOS M50 Mark II (opens in new tab) holds the top two spots on the charts for its white and black colorways. And the original Canon EOS M50 (opens in new tab) comes in at number 10, proving that there’s still a ridiculous amount of life left in the manufacturer’s original APS-C mirrorless models – despite the launch of the Canon EOS R7 (opens in new tab) and Canon EOS R10 (opens in new tab).

And in third place it’s another Canon – this time the Canon EOS RP (opens in new tab)one of only two full-frame cameras on the list, the other being the Sony A7 IV (opens in new tab). And that’s a critical point here: seven of the ten cameras in this list are APS-C and one (the Olympus PEN E-PL10 (opens in new tab)) is Micro Four Thirds.

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However, it is interesting to note that APS-C specialist Fujifilm is nowhere to be seen, even on the Nikon Z50 (opens in new tab) Entering at the expense of a single X-series camera.

This is what the complete BCN+R diagram looks like (opens in new tab) Shapes on (tip of hat to Digital Camera Info (opens in new tab)):

1) Canon EOS M50 Mark II (opens in new tab) (Double Zoom Kit) White
2) Canon EOS M50 Mark II (Double Zoom Kit) Black
3) Canon EOSRP (opens in new tab) (Canon RF 24-105mm IS STM Kit)
4) Olympus PEN E-PL10 (opens in new tab) (EZ Double Zoom Kit) White
5) Sony A7 IV (opens in new tab)
6) Sony A6100 (opens in new tab) (Double Zoom Lens Kit) Black
7) Nikon Z50 (opens in new tab) (double zoom kit)
8) Sony A6400 (opens in new tab) (Double Zoom Lens Kit) Silver
9) Sony A6400 (Double Zoom Lens Kit) Black
10) Canon EOS M50 (opens in new tab) (Double Zoom Kit) White

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