Ricoh rawsumers do well at Map Camera in Japan

DigitalCamera.jp has published the top selling cameras at Map Camera stores in Japan for the month of August 2008. MAP attracts advanced photographers, that's why you don't see the general-purpose mass-market digital cameras in their top sellers list.

In the "New Cameras" segment, Ricoh has two RAWsumers in the top ten, the game-changing GX-100, and the almost adorable GRD-II. The majority of the rest of the cameras are dSLRs.

In the "Used Camera" top 20 list, we find the two aforementioned Ricohs in the top ten, and the original GRD-I at #20.

A clear victory for Ricoh as none of the other RAWsumers available at that time managed to make the charts. Having said that, please note that this is a small segment of the market in Japan, so please do not draw any dramatic conclusions :)