(Reuters) - Samsung Electronics said on Thursday that it aimed to sell this year up to 250,000 compact, interchangeable-lens cameras, a nascent but growing segment joined recently by Japan's Nikon. "We expect our mirrorless camera sales to reach 170,000 to 250,000 units this year," Han Myoung-sup, a senior vice president at Samsung, told reporters at a launching event for its new mirrorless camera, the NX200. Samsung said the global mirrorless camera market was forecast to grow to 3 million units this year, citing IDC data. (Reporting by Hyunjoo Jin; Editing by Jonathan Hopfner)

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Samsung aims to sell up to 250,000 mirrorless
cameras this year
SEOUL | Thu Sep 29, 2011 7:14am EDT
(Reuters) - Samsung Electronics said on Thursday that it aimed to
sell this year up to 250,000 compact, interchangeable-lens cameras,
a nascent but growing segment joined recently by Japan's Nikon.
"We expect our mirrorless camera sales to reach 170,000 to 250,000 units this year," Han
Myoung-sup, a senior vice president at Samsung, told reporters at a launching event for its new
mirrorless camera, the NX200.
Samsung said the global mirrorless camera market was forecast to grow to 3 million units this
year, citing IDC data.
(Reporting by Hyunjoo Jin; Editing by Jonathan Hopfner)