New feature: Top Selling DSLR Charts goes live

As we mentioned during the weekend, this new regular feature is now ready to launch! If you like dSLRs, and you are a gearaholic or a numbers-geek, then you may find this new feature interesting, the Top Selling DSLR Charts (permalink). This is a spin-off of our on-going Top Selling Cameras blog which was born out of the Charts feature (93 episodes) at the Old Blogspot Blog.

To make sure everyone understands this new feature and puts it in perspective, we recommend that everyone reads the introduction/about page first and please ask questions there if something is not clear!

To summarize things for the speed-readers, this new project takes snapshots of the top selling dSLRs at Amazon and presents them in a "Charts" format. Each update references back to the previous update. It is important to note that each update is a snapshot, but Amazon uses some form of a weighted-average algorithm, so it's more than just a snapshot.

Because this is a black-box approach (we have been observing the Amazon top sellers for many years), its main purpose is to notice patterns and trends, not to measure the market share of each company or actual camera sales. It has been created for gearaholic-entertainment purposes, not to replace IDC and CIPA!

You can keep up with the updates by checking this blog, or checking the new DSLRs sub-blog, or if you prefer, you can subscribe to the RSS feed and have the updates automatically delivered to your newsreader.

The above is a screenshot teaser, click on it for the complete top 20. If you have any suggestions, feedback, comments, etc, please let us know.