BCN May 2024 Results: The R50 rules

[Canon Rumors]

When the M50 came out, Canon hit a sweet spot between price, size, weight, and cost – leading it to become one of the best-selling cameras in Canon’s digital history. When the RF mount came out, it was only a matter of time before Canon attempted the same magic with the RF mount – and

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[EOS 4 Life]

So much for "Nobody buys APS-C anymore".
It is the entire list.

 

[nhandumuc]

Canon is DOOMED™!

 

[Navism]

many popular lens are still out of stock in Japan.

https://www.yodobashi.com/category/19055/61001/m0000001830/?discontinued=false&spcs=Specvaluecode_500000000301003001_0001_1000000119_5000022603&spcs=Specvaluecode_500000000301003001_0001_1000000119_5000089400

 

[koenkooi]

"Here's our top-10, but half the entries are different kits of the same camera."

 

[EOS 4 Life]

"Here's our top-10, but half the entries are different kits of the same camera."

These lists are generally by SKU.

 

[Kit.]

Canon is DOOMED™!

Double Zoom-ed.

Surprisingly, Canon is more popular in white, while Sony is in black. Or it's just an effect of sampling noise.

 

[neuroanatomist]

Or it's just an effect of sampling noise.

IMO, that's an issue with BCN's rankings. A camera can jump from being in the 40's one month to the top 10 the next month, suggesting that the actual numbers represented are not very high for a given model.

 

[John Wilde]

"The R50's most compelling feature is probably its autofocus system. It's a relatively simple but very powerful system that combines a series of subject recognition modes with tenacious tracking."

-DPR's review

"In the first quarter, unit sales grew, mainly driven by mirrorless cameras like the EOSR50"

- Canon financial document

 

[Del Paso]

My own absolutely reliable statistics:
2 weeks in the Dolomites.
Many Italian, Chinese, Japanese, German, American tourists and, (no kidding!) 80% of all cameras I saw were Canons, 15% Nikons, 5% sonies and Fujis. In these 2 weeks I saw ONE soni A7*...
I know, my experienced statistics are as stupid as the "all my friends (or professionals) sold their Canons to buy sonies".

 

[P-visie]

My own absolutely reliable statistics:
2 weeks in the Dolomites.
Many Italian, Chinese, Japanese, German, American tourists and, (no kidding!) 80% of all cameras I saw were Canons, 15% Nikons, 5% sonies and Fujis. In these 2 weeks I saw ONE soni A7*...
I know, my experienced statistics are as stupid as the "all my friends (or professionals sold their Canons to buy sonies".

No Leica’s?

 

[Del Paso]

No Leica’s?

No, only mine.
If I had seen another one, according to some soni troll's logic, it would have meant Leica sells as many cameras in Italy as soni.
I love these microcosmic statistics and "facts"!

 

[Uneternal]

This is just a monthly snapshot, it could\'ve been that some of these cameras were just on sale in Japan. It\'d be more interesting to see which cameras sold best in the first quarter of the year.

 

[justaCanonuser]

Canon is DOOMED™!

I would have betted that this is comment #1, so I would have lost, because it only made #2

 

[kmrahe]

They're currently selling the R50 1-lens kit for only $50 more than the original price of the R100 with the same lens - it's no wonder why the R100 isn't on the list. And one has to wonder why the R10 is so high on the list when the difference in the specs. between it and the R50 is so small and it currently commands a price premium of almost 50% for the 1-lens kit. My guess is the ergonomics of a whale-sized lens mount on a perch-sized body vs. the more balanced ergonomics of the R10.

 

[DhlcadR6]

It has the best spec for its class, miles ahead of the competition.

 

[SnowMiku]

What will the future of the R100 be? I feel each of the APS-C RF bodies should have got an extra 0 to the model name to match the DSLR naming and performance tier, the R100 for example feels more like an R1000.

 

[f2_productions]

What will the future of the R100 be? I feel each of the APS-C RF bodies should have got an extra 0 to the model name to match the DSLR naming and performance tier, the R100 for example feels more like an R1000.

Right! I would name the R100 the R1000, and the R50 the R100, to match it. Yes, the R50 follows the M50s, and for the normal user it is easier to understand the names. That is what is important for a company, not to match it in a usefull way

There was also a 100D (a low-end entry APS-C body) well before the 90D, which is a more high-end APS-C body, so no need to make it sensefull.

Maybe, or hopefully, they will make "Mark"-Versions for the R10 and R50.

 

[koenkooi]

Right! I would name the R100 the R1000, and the R50 the R100, to match it. Yes, the R50 follows the M50s, and for the normal user it is easier to understand the names. That is what is important for a company, not to match it in a usefull way

There was also a 100D (a low-end entry APS-C body) well before the 90D, which is a more high-end APS-C body, so no need to make it sensefull.

Maybe, or hopefully, they will make "Mark"-Versions for the R10 and R50.

The 100D did get the at-the-time most recent Digic processor and sensor and more settings in the menu than the lower end xxxxD models. I got the impression that Canon went for ‘smallest DSLR’ first and not for the cheapest DSLR.
It was relatively cheap for the features it had, I enjoyed it very much!

 

[PerKr]

Right! I would name the R100 the R1000, and the R50 the R100, to match it. Yes, the R50 follows the M50s, and for the normal user it is easier to understand the names. That is what is important for a company, not to match it in a usefull way

There was also a 100D (a low-end entry APS-C body) well before the 90D, which is a more high-end APS-C body, so no need to make it sensefull.

Maybe, or hopefully, they will make "Mark"-Versions for the R10 and R50.

I would think it is very likely that they use the mk* designation going forward. For the DSLRs they adopted the same methodology as for their film SLRs but that methodology doesn't work when updates happen more often. It also got weird when the 60D was situated a half step down from its predecessor while the 7D was half a step up. Not to mention the 100D being introduced a half step lower than the rest of the xx0D series. It was a complete mess for consumers. Using mk*-designations makes it easier to avoid that level of messiness.