Most articles about the used camera market are written from a distance — a bit of forum reading, a bit of guesswork. We are in the unusual position of being the buyer, which means we can just count.
Between 16 February and 10 September 2026 we bought 909 camera bodies across India. Below is what they were and where they came from.
This is our purchase book. It is not a national market study, and we are not pretending otherwise.
It is skewed by what we list, where we operate and who finds us. If a model is not in our catalogue, it does not appear here even if half the country is selling one. Cities where we have a Google Business presence are over-represented compared to cities we only reach by courier.
What it does tell you honestly is which cameras real Indian owners were letting go of in the first three quarters of 2026, at a sample size large enough to be worth something. Every number in this post is labelled with the window it covers. When we refresh it next quarter, we will leave the old figures visible rather than quietly overwrite them.
Camera bodies purchased in India, 16 February – 10 September 2026. n = 909.
| # | Model | Units |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sony ZV-E10 | 80 |
| 2 | Nikon D5600 | 46 |
| 3 | Nikon Z50 | 32 |
| 4 | Sony A6400 | 29 |
| 5 | Sony A6100 | 28 |
| 5 | Canon EOS R50 | 28 |
| 7 | Canon EOS 200D Mark II | 26 |
| 8 | Nikon D3500 | 25 |
| 9 | Canon EOS M50 Mark II | 23 |
| 10 | Canon EOS R10 | 20 |
Just outside: Nikon D3400 (19), Canon EOS R100 (18), Sony A7 IV (16), Sony A7 III and Canon EOS 1500D (15 each).
Seven of the top ten are compact mirrorless bodies aimed at people who film themselves: the ZV-E10, Z50, A6100, A6400, R50, M50 Mark II and R10. The ZV-E10 alone accounts for nearly one in eleven bodies we bought.
There is a straightforward reading of this. These cameras sold in very large numbers from roughly 2021 onwards to people starting a channel, a small business or a freelance video habit. Some of those people upgraded. Others discovered that the phone in their pocket was enough, or that they had stopped filming altogether. Either way, two to four years later, the cameras come back to the market. That is exactly the window we are in now.
If you own one of these, that is worth knowing in both directions: there is a healthy market for it, and there are a lot of them.
The Nikon D5600, D3500 and D3400 and the Canon EOS 200D Mark II and 1500D together account for well over a hundred of the 909. These are cameras that were bought as a first “proper” camera, used for a few years, and then displaced — usually by a phone, sometimes by a mirrorless body.
DSLRs are not finished. They are simply moving from first owners to second owners, and quite a lot of that movement passes through us.
The Sony A7 III and A7 IV appear at 15 and 16 units. Small numbers next to the ZV-E10, but these are cameras leaving the hands of working photographers rather than casual owners, and they tend to arrive in better condition with more accessories intact.
Across those 909 lots we also took in 1,073 lenses — more lenses than bodies. 743 of the 909 lots (82%) included at least one lens.
This is worth stating plainly because it is the single most common misunderstanding we deal with: the price on a camera page is for the body only. Lenses are quoted separately, from their own catalogue. Nobody is trying to be clever about it — a body and a kit zoom depreciate at completely different rates, and quoting them as one number would mean quoting both of them badly.
Purchase lots by city, India, 16 February – 10 September 2026. n = 909.
| City | Lots |
|---|---|
| Delhi | 154 |
| Bangalore | 114 |
| Mumbai | 81 |
| Pune | 64 |
| Hyderabad | 55 |
| Kolkata | 48 |
| Chennai | 44 |
| Jaipur | 36 |
| Ahmedabad | 27 |
| Chandigarh | 25 |
After that the tail runs through Lucknow (17), Guwahati (16), Patna (15) and Dehradun (14), and keeps going.
The metros lead, which is not surprising. What is more interesting is the tail. A meaningful share of the used camera market in India is not in the four biggest cities, and the assumption that you need to live in Delhi or Bangalore to sell a camera at a fair price has not been true for a while.
We also track which model pages get looked at. Over the seven days from 4 to 10 September 2026 there were 845 views across 151 different models, split like this:
By brand, over the same week: Canon 267, Sony 246, Nikon 127, DJI 119, Fujifilm 27, Insta360 27, GoPro 14.
Seven days is a small window and we are not going to dress it up as a trend. But one thing in it is consistent with the purchase data: Canon leads on lookups while Sony leads on the single most-sold body. People check Canon prices constantly; the camera that most often ends up in the box is a Sony.
The other detail worth noting is action cameras and drones. They are a small slice of lookups, but they are a real one — and in drones we only deal in the sub-250 g class, which is what our category is limited to.
The practical advice does not change much with the model:
No. It is what we bought, in the cities we operate in, from the models we list. It is a large real sample, not a national survey.
Because any price we printed would be wrong within weeks. Model pages and the instant quote carry live numbers; articles should not.
Not at all. The list is about volume, not value. Some of the most valuable bodies we buy appear only a handful of times.
Quarterly, with the previous figures left in place so the change is visible.
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