Now that it’s 2020, we finally have perfect vision for our look back at everything that occurred in the 2010s. It was an important and fast-moving decade for the photography technology industry, with innovations in digital imaging moving just as quickly as in the computing industry. Even though the decade feels like a blur now, let’s take a look back at the top 10 photo-related technologies that happened over the past 10 years.
1. Mirrorless Cameras
What we know as a mirrorless camera first came to fruition in 2008 with the Panasonic G1, but mirrorless truly hit its stride in the 2010s. Usurping SLRs as the most popular form of interchangeable-lens cameras on the market, mirrorless cameras are obviously here to stay and are the style of camera where most manufacturers are investing their attention and resources. Like any other new, groundbreaking technology, mirrorless cameras were initially polarizing as their performance took a few years to catch up to the mighty DSLR, but it’s hard to argue anymore that they are not just as competent in a majority of applications, even bettering DSLRs’ capabilities in many ways. It will be interesting to see how mirrorless matures in the 2020s.
2. Video
Just like mirrorless, video became a touted feature on photo-intended cameras as early as 2008 with the Nikon D90, but in the 2010s it became an obligatory, if not the key, feature for the development of many cameras. Just as the world of image-making in general has been evolving, with journalism, commercial imaging, art-making, and nearly any other field of communication having grown to be more multimedia oriented, the cameras themselves have also evolved to meet these photo-video hybrid demands. In the early stages, video capabilities were an add-on and novel feature to complement the photo functions, but now, as 2020 begins, it’s one of the key selling points of most cameras, and photo-spec’d cameras are even beginning to encroach on video-specific cameras’ territory. Will there stand to be much of a difference between the cameras used for the two mediums in the next decade?
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