Have your say: Most important cameras of the 2010s

Without the Sony A7R, the Panasonic S1, Nikon Z, EOS-R would not exist. It was revolutionary.

Nikon D800 (not on the list). That camera (2012) ignited the MP escalation (and related IQ improvements) during the early part of the decade -- which carries on today. The leap to 36 MP back then was a big deal.

Sony A7/r for me. A camera that finally met my expectations.

None of the above. Panasonic G1 is the very first mirrorless and deserves to be called most important camera of decade

The Fujifilm X100 brought the fun and the beautiful back into photography. So that got my vote. No Im just hoping that video functions and video QUALITY can come up to speed, today you cannot even grade 1080p without getting artifacts. All camera manufactorers should include the option of higher bitrate (100mb/s).

/Proud owner/shooter of the X100F.

I would vote for the Sony A series. The A57 A65 and A77. Although these have a mirror, they work like a mirrorless camera and heralded the introduction of the fully mirrorless revolution. They were among the first cameras with liveview and autofocus during video.

Olympus OM-D and its full-frame sibling Sony A7 were the biggest disruption in photography since the switch from analog to digital.

For me the camera of the decade is clearly the Nikon D800/E. This camera was a paradigm change.
I say this as a Sony and former Canon user. The D800 was like a bomb in the industry. But I see cameras like the Leica Q Or a completely stupid EOS R in your list. Those are no game changers, the EOS R is not even a well thought camera, but you miss one of the most successful cameras.

I was a victim of the X100 sticky blades. I moved to the too expensive Leica X1 and was blown away by the IQ. The X100 line clearly "won" the camera battle but my X1 still takes great photos. The flash no longer stays down so when I use it I carefully shoot in continuous. A simple firmware by Leica allowing the flash to be turned off while remaining up would solve the issue but it never happened. The flash was a stupid design. I now own and love my X100F but the small X1 was special.

I'm surprised Lumix GF1 is not on the list...

Fuji x100 ... all the main hype starts here .... then a7/r .... realy game changer in this industry. then D850 and lastly gfx100 (ffordable and usable MF camera a.k.a. FUTURE)

I was hoping to vote for the Canon 5D Mark III, which has been dominating the wedding photography industry. Too bad it's not on the list.

I voted for Olympus Em5. For me, it was very important camera - new mirrorless, smaller than any other camera that time with possibility of changing lenses. I still have the first version of it.

“Sony A7/R”... So in this case you are doubling votes for both A7 and A7R bodies as if they were one?

Can’t imagine why Pentax K1 and Leica T are on the list...nothing original or groundbreaking

I would have put the DJI Phantom 2 on the list as it revolutionized aerial photography, making this genre affordable to he masses. While on the RPAS theme, I would also add the Mavic Air. This was so much cheaper and more portable than drones before it, but still had 4K and avoidance sensors.

Peeps are just voting for what they have, that's the default most impt.

To me the word "Important" is neutral. E.g. Nikon announced, marketed, sold and killed many "important" products. It seems Nikon is only reliable within it's own F mount environment. Ooops now there is the Z mount. Old customer ponder what to do and new customers are afraid they may kill yet another new product.

So I think the Z6/Z7/Z50 are really "important". It's a sink or swim product.

Wondering why the Canon 5D4 was not even on this list while the Nikon D850 is doing well here as one of the top DSLRs of the decade. Isn't the Canon 5D4 the best of the 5D series and better than the 6D that is on this list. Was it even a choice to vote for?

Funny how the camera I wanted to vote first didn't even show up in the list and I couldn't pick it up.
Slightly biased, DPReview....
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Sad but unsurprising how many people seem to equate "most important" with "best".

The D850 MAY be the best. But, it certainly was not the most important. It is an evolution of a very good camera. It's arrival on the scene did little or nothing to change the landscape (ha ha) of photography in the 2010s.

On the other hand, the arrival of the first Full Frame mirrorless was extremely important (in my opinion) and has made a huge impact on modern digital photography as we know it.

The D850 in all actuality is the best camera there was in 2010. It is properly weather sealed, offered the best dynamic range, awesome ISO performance, over 1,800 shots with Nikon's dependability. It shot 4K, although it wasn't a videographers camera because it lacked features. Sure the Sony mirrorless are great, but the Sony's were always expensive, had lots of issues, and weren't as dependable as the Nikon flagships. Glad the D850 is 2nd, but it should be first, with all respect to the other systems of course.

Apple iPhone 4 ???
This gimmick 'camera' does not belong in this list of pro cameras.

While the list is heavily weighted to "Pro" cameras, the workhorses for those of us who don't want to lug around a bag of lenses are the bridge cameras. My personal favorite is the Sony RX10 mk4.

This list is very incomplete and biased. There is no option for writing in anything that is not on the list. It shows only single-lens 2-D cameras that are only capable of terribly distorted flat monoscopic 2-D images, and none that have two or more lenses and are synchronized for realistic stereoscopic 3-D images like normal human vision. Any camera worth considering should be capable of stereoscopic 3-D.

Z6-Z7 are among the top. With ProRES 4K, Sony has nothing compared to it. The Z cameras offer better video with better video focus, Eye AF where you can choose who's eye to focus on. Sony is losing it

Most significant? Mirrorless. I may be mistaken, but was not the first DPReview Gold rated mirrorless of the 2010’s the Olympus Omd Em1? Look it up. I would have voted it #1, had the editors thought to have included it in the list. The bias is, well...sanctimonious.

Apple? They are a company adapting the work of others to their needs. A very disappointing choice. It is not a full blown camera. The camera is an after thought of a verbal communication device. How ott.

I’m disappointed that Foveon technology did not get anywhere.... But who knows, Foveon sensors, AI and Smartphone-camera integration might make a splash in the next decade. Perhaps we’ll even go back to smaller sensors. 😉

I’m also struggling with this list. I think that cameras like Sonya9, Panasonic GH4/GH5, Olympus OMD and Pentax K1 brought revolutionary features into photography and film. But not necessarily the biggest sellers.
A9 technology trickled down to A7/R and full frame mirrorless exploded in popularity.
iPhone 4 showed that smartphone camera does not need to suck and should be taken seriously as an alternative to point-and-shoot.
Nikon 850 showed perfection and peak of DSLR design.
GFX100 is probably the single most important medium format offering despite the great attempts by Pentax, GFX50, Hasselblad and Leica. It brought MF closer to a typical Full Frame usability.
GoPro pioneered a form factor of cameras that paved a way for YouTube video explosion.
Fuji x100 keeps the fixed lens street cameras relevant, more so than Ricoh GR, Leica Q or Sony RX1.

Without any doubt Sony a7

It's very a confusing list and makes no sense based on 5he question being asked. As for putting the iPhone 4s on this l7st is ridiculous. It was a disaster, and I'm.surprised nobody sued apple. My son had it, up until it melted and almost caught fire. They soon replaced it with the it. Lots of blogs about it and yet Apple refused to acknowledge they built a dangerous phone.

The Samsung NX1 mirrorless camera (2014/2015) with 4K DCI video, H265 CODEC, 28MP backside illuminated sensor with copper wires, 15fps shutter burst, full touchscreen menu and super amoled LCD, sent shockwaves throughout the industry at the time and truly opened the mirrorless format as a serious pro contender. Sadly Samsung exited the camera market, but the demonstration of technology did not go unnoticed. The camera is still relevant today 5-years later.

There's been some incredible cameras in the last decade, which are so much better, than the digital cameras in the preceding decade. However, I'm not going to vote, because that list is somewhat arbitrary, and it is very difficult to understand the criteria. It includes innovative cameras which have now been superseded by even more capable cameras, and contrarily the latest great cameras, which are the pinnacle of previous iterations.

Let me give some examples of this. It has the Nikon D850, the latest iteration of that line, and which many regard as the best all round DSLR made. Yet it has the Sony A7/R the original cameras of this line, now superseded by much better cameras in that line. It has the original Olympus OMD E-M5, now superseded by much better cameras. It has the Panasonic GH5, the latest in that line. So what is the criteria, is it cameras that were innovative at the time, or is it about the best camera of that type/line? It's muddled and confused to say the least.

Just like DSLR replaced SLR, mirrorless are replacing DSLR as professional cameras, and the A7/R is the camera that started this revolution.
The present might be very different if that camera had never happened.

Fujifilm X series missing?? Absolutely the most important cameras (X-trans sensor) of the decade.

This doesn’t work.
For me, it was the A7/r but for the industry, I think it was the Nikon D800/E. This thing was a paradigm change.

Sony A7RII was, for me, the absolute gamechanger, the point at which I realized that I had to abandon the Canon stack. First, I used Canon lenses (and still use some), but then Sony started coming out with really good glass like the 90mm macro and the 85mm G master. The A7RII is also special because, for a brief moment, we got a camera with app support, which resulted in video 30min derestriction, neat apps (e.g., for focus stacking), and just fun hacking the camera. Sadly, Sony nerfed this, but they gave us other things, like an ability to shoot 240-megapixel static subjects — albeit with a clunky workflow.

I was voting based on what camera was the "most important", not the "best"--as in, most impactful to the camera industry, end users, and so on. My picks, and the reasoning therefore:

1) iPhone - I picked this basically to represent all smartphones. I don't know that the 4 would be the specific phone I'd choose. Obviously smartphone cameras have had the biggest impact on the industry and on how regular people take pictures, whether you like them or not.

2) GH5 - Should be the GH4 for this category. The GH4 was an important camera for bringing professional-level 4k video quality to a hybrid mirrorless camera. Pushed all manufacturers to take video seriously.

3) A7/R - Set the benchmark/form factor all other manufacturers would follow for full frame mirrorless.

4) D850 - Not revolutionary, but still the ultimate endpoint for the DSLR, a true do-it-all camera for every use case with fantastic IQ. Industry workhorse.

5) RX100 - for bringing ILC image quality to a pocketable camera.

These results make perfect sense. The a7 is the camera of the decade, no doubt! The D850 is the last DSLR we will ever need and the lenses are best in class. The iPhone (as an example of high end smart phone) has changed the structure of the camera market.

The one striking part is the beating Canon is taking here.

For a brand that prides itself to be at the top of the pack, this should be an eye opening result and it is probably an accurate forecast of the kind of market share they can realistically expect in the future if they don't seriously up their game.

Some of the R lenses are appealing and indicate good potential (mostly the 85mm f1.2), but the road ahead is very very long. Their current lens mount line up doesn't make much sense with no roadmap for M mount users to grow into R and also no connection in from APS-C DSLRs, which is an essential difference with Sony and Nikon. Their FF DSLR and mirrorless bodies are far behind competition,...

I do not know anything regarding iPhone. Anyone care to tell me why iPhone 4 is the phone of choice to represent all mobile phones of the decade? Was it first with anything? Was it the best of anything?