TOKYO |
TOKYO Nov 7 (Reuters) – Nikon Corp cut its
full-year section sales foresee for high-end cameras for the
second entertain in a quarrel on Thursday, as a thespian tumble in
demand among photography hobbyists that began final year
accelerated faster than expected.
The association posted a 41 percent dump in handling distinction to
21.9 billion yen ($222 million) for a 6 months ended
September, observant abroad direct for pricy single-lens reflex
models had remained depressed.
It cut a section sales projection for transmutable lens
cameras to 6.20 million from a prior foresee of 6.55
million, that had likely a initial tumble in sales of the
format given Nikon’s initial digital SLR in 1999.
A pointy downturn in a single-lens automatic camera market
this year has come as a blow to companies such as Nikon and
market personality Canon Inc, after a shrivelling of the
compact camera marketplace as consumers switched to smartphones for
taking photos. Nikon’s imaging unit’s handling distinction slid 26
percent in a initial half to 30.9 billion yen.
Nikon also cut a sales foresee for steppers,
multi-million dollar lithography machines that are a critical part
of a semiconductor production process, to 36 from an
earlier foresee of 37 machines, observant it had felt a impact
of a dump in capex among chipmakers. Operating distinction in its
precision instruments section fell 48.2 percent to 3.7 billion yen.
The Japanese organisation now claims reduction than a fifth of the
market, down from reduction than 40 percent a decade ago, as Dutch
rival ASML Holdings NV has gained a share of over 80
percent.
($1 = 98.6500 Japanese yen)
(Reporting by Sophie Knight; Editing by Stephen Coates)
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Nikon drops sales forecast as high-end camera market stalls
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