The Top 10 Cameras

Our critic's ranking, best first.

  1. Nikon Z82023Nikon put the entire Z9 into a body a third smaller and $1,500 cheaper, and forgot to remove anything.Read the review
  2. Canon EOS R5 Mark II2024Eye Control autofocus stops being a party trick the moment you shoot two people in the same frame.
  3. Canon EOS R6 Mark III2025Canon put 7K raw and 40 frames a second in the mid range body, and gave up almost nothing to do it.
  4. Panasonic Lumix S5 II2023Panasonic finally admitted contrast autofocus was a dead end, and the video camera it had been building all along came good.
  5. Canon EOS R6 Mark II2022Forty frames a second and the best autofocus at the price, held back by a lens mount Canon will not open.
  6. Nikon ZR2025Internal 6K raw at sixty frames for 2,199 dollars, and a list of missing parts that tells you who it is for.
  7. Sony FX2Sony FX22025The first Cinema Line camera with a real viewfinder, and the FX3's smarter, cheaper sibling for anyone who also shoots stills.
  8. Canon EOS C50Canon EOS C502025Canon's smallest cinema camera yet records 7K RAW internally, and it takes 32MP stills on the side.
  9. Panasonic Lumix GH72024The video camera that finally focuses, which was the only thing keeping the GH line from being the obvious choice.
  10. Sony a1 II2024The most complete camera anyone makes, and the hardest one to justify against a Z8 and the money left over.