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Alamy Recommended Digital Camera List

Our Alamy Quality Control (QC) Team see a wide variety of images from various digital cameras.

We have put together a list of recommended digital cameras. This shows cameras that are capable of producing images that meet our QC standards when used in varied conditions.

All cameras included in this list need to be used at their optimum settings and the images carefully processed using a professional image software package such as Adobe Photoshop.

At present we recommend the following cameras for submissions to Alamy:

Canon:

  • Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III
  • Canon EOS 5D Mark II
  • Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II
  • Canon EOS 7D
  • Canon EOS 5D
  • Canon EOS-1D Mark IV
  • Canon EOS-1D Mark III
  • Canon EOS-1D Mark II
  • Canon EOS-1Ds
  • Canon EOS 50D
  • Canon EOS 40D
  • Canon EOS 500D / Digital Rebel T1i
  • Canon EOS 450D / Digital Rebel Xsi / EOS KISS X2
  • Canon EOS 30D
  • Canon EOS 1000D / Digital Rebel XS
  • Canon EOS 400D / Digital Rebel XTi
  • Canon EOS 20D
  • Canon EOS 350D

Nikon:

  • Nikon D3X
  • Nikon D3S
  • Nikon D3
  • Nikon D700
  • Nikon D300S
  • Nikon D300
  • Nikon D2X / D2Xs
  • Nikon D90
  • Nikon D200
  • Nikon D5000
  • Nikon D3000
  • Nikon D60
  • Nikon D80
  • Nikon D40X

Panasonic:

  • Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF1
  • Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH1
  • Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1
  • Panasonic Lumix DMC-L10

Samsung:

  • Samsung GX-20
  • Samsung GX-10
  • Samsung GX-1s

Contax:

  • Contax N Digital

Epson:

  • Epson R-D1x
  • Epson R-D1

Fuji:

  • Fuji S5 Pro

Leica:

  • M9
  • M8.2
  • M8

Olympus:

  • Olympus E620
  • Olympus E-30
  • Olympus E-520
  • Olympus E-450
  • Olympus E-420
  • Olympus E-3
  • Olympus E-510
  • Olympus E-410
  • Olympus E-400
  • Olympus PEN E-P1

Pentax:

  • Pentax K-7
  • Pentax K20D
  • Pentax K200D
  • Pentax K10D / Grand Prix
  • Pentax K-x
  • Pentax K2000 (K-m)

Sony:

  • Sony DSLR A900
  • Sony DSLR A850
  • Sony DSLR-A700
  • Sony DSLR-A550
  • Sony DSLR-A500
  • Sony DSLR-A380
  • Sony DSLR-A350
  • Sony DSLR-A330
  • Sony DSLR-A300
  • Sony DSLR-A230
  • Sony DSLR-A200
  • Sony DSLR-A100

Please note, there may be other digital cameras that can produce files which would also be acceptable to Alamy.

Last updated October 2009.

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