Best Cameras of 2024
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
The cameras of 2024, ranked by critic grade. Ten of the year's thirteen reviews make the page, and the thread through them is readout speed and where autofocus is allowed to look. Canon built a stacked 45MP hybrid whose focus point goes where you look, Nikon shipped a sensor architecture nobody had shipped before, and Panasonic put phase detect autofocus in the GH line at last.
The Canon EOS R5 Mark II is the year's one S. Eye Control autofocus stops being a party trick the moment two people share the frame, with 30fps bursts, 8K60 raw internal and thermal limits that want a fan grip. The Panasonic Lumix GH7 takes second, graded A, as the video camera that finally focuses. The Sony a1 II, graded A, is the most complete camera anyone makes and the hardest to justify at 6498 dollars. The Nikon Z6 III, graded A, trades a stop of shadow latitude for flagship speed at half the money.
Eight of the ten are graded A, so the letter separates less than the verdicts do. The Nikon Z50 II, DJI Osmo Action 5 Pro, Fujifilm GFX100S II, Fujifilm X100VI and Canon EOS R1 share the grade at prices from 349 to 6299 dollars. The one B, the Fujifilm X-T50, carries the flagship's 40 megapixel sensor and a film simulation dial that says who it is for. Between two A grades, weigh what each verdict holds back.
Canon EOS R5 Mark IIEye Control autofocus stops being a party trick the moment you shoot two people in the same frame.Read the review
Panasonic Lumix GH7The video camera that finally focuses, which was the only thing keeping the GH line from being the obvious choice.
Sony a1 IIThe most complete camera anyone makes, and the hardest one to justify against a Z8 and the money left over.
Nikon Z6 IIIA sensor architecture nobody had shipped before, trading a stop of shadow latitude for flagship speed at half the money.- DJI Osmo Action 5 ProDJI Osmo Action 5 ProThe first action camera that beats GoPro at GoPro's own game, and does it in the dark.
Nikon Z50 IIThe flagship's brain in a nine hundred dollar body, and the sensor it kept is the giveaway.
Fujifilm X-M5Fujifilm's smallest, cheapest X body is a superb little video camera, as long as you can live without a viewfinder
Fujifilm X100VIA fixed 35mm compact that became a cultural object, and still shoots well enough to survive the attention.
Fujifilm GFX100S IIA hundred and two megapixels of medium format for five thousand dollars, which used to be roughly the price of the tripod head.
Canon EOS R1Canon's flagship answers every question a sports photographer asks, and one that everyone else keeps asking back.