According to my two sources it is big panic inside Japanese camera industry.

As they outsources and moved to China lot of parts, many have assembly factories, but roughly NONE is free from some Chinese part (despite some telling otherwise, even high end manufacturers use intermediate local firms to hide the fract).

For lot of this stuff Japanese factories are being sold and later destroyed long ago and all specialists dismissed.

Their only hope is big unsold stock and also drop for cameras purchases.

A freight train left China's central city of Zhengzhou on Sunday, marking the resumption of Henan Province's exports to Belt and Road countries following the conclusion of the Spring Festival holiday amid the outbreak of the novel coronavirus.

The train's 41 containers weighing 615.8 tons contain goods such as mechanical and electrical equipment, metal products, precision parts and daily necessities. On Friday, the first China-Europe freight that resumed operations after the Chinese New Year holiday made its departure from the city of Dongguan, south China's Guangdong Province. The cargo includes communication devices, ATMs, circuit boards and vacuum cleaners produced in the Pearl River Delta.

The operation of freight trains in Guangdong was suspended due to the holiday and coronavirus epidemic outbreak. The train is expected to arrive in Kaluga, Russia in a fortnight, the China Railway Guangzhou Group said.

"With enterprises in the Pearl River Delta resuming operations, there will be more China-Europe freight trains with more containers," said Peng Tang of the Guangdong branch of China Railway Container Transport Corporation.

Earlier this week, the freight train service from Zhejiang Province to Central Asia also resumed. A train loaded with 82 standard containers left a railway station in the city of Jinhua, eastern China's Zhejiang Province. The cargo including hardware tools, textiles and auto parts is heading to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and other Central Asian countries through the Horgos Port in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

Motherboard and graphics card sales in China are expected to plunge 50% or more in the first quarter of 2020, according to sources at local channel distributors.

The world's top-5 notebook brand vendors are expected to see their combined shipments (excluding detachable models) fall over 30% sequentially in January 2020, due to a combination of negative factors including the coronavirus impact and seasonality,

My sources tell that cameras shipments drop to dealers will reach 50% for most brands and up to 70% for Olympus and Pentax. Final sales in Asia to fall up to 60% YoY.

Japanese manufacturers already had secret meeting and will have more coordinating CIPA numbers rigging.

Car sales in China

South Korea now has 433 cases and they expect it to double in next 2 days.

Taiwan still hiding under the rock.

Samsung Electronics said on Saturday that one coronavirus case had been confirmed at its mobile device factory complex in the southeastern city of Gumi, causing a shutdown of its entire facility there until Monday morning.

Samsung Electronics, the world’s top smartphone maker, said the floor where the infected employee worked would be shut down until the morning of Feb. 25.

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By optimizing the overtime mode of production line employees, OmniVision can restore its production capacity to about 70% by the end of Feb 2020, and is expected to return to 100% in Mar. OmniVision packages and tests 400M-500M image sensor chips each year, and the shipment of 12” high-pixel image sensor wafers is 200,000.

As cases are likely to increase in the next months, Photokina seems more likely to be cancelled.

This year’s annual Game Developers Conference has been postponed amid growing concern about the international coronavirus outbreaks.

Parks and scenic tourists spots have reopened in China and you can bring your camera :) Visits are limited to anywhere from 30-500 people an hour depending on the location. Restaurants are also reopening but no large groups, only two people per table. Guests are screened at all venues for temperature readings.