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EOS R - Camera popularity (kind of) ranking

I was going through planespotters and noticed they have the number of photos per camera in their search. It's not exactly a popularity ranking (can just mean that people with some cameras take more plane photos than others), but thought it'd be fun to mention it here.

  1. R5 - 24.564

  2. R7 - 16.542

  3. R6 Mark II - 16.229

  4. R6 - 10.216

  5. R5 Mark II - 6.168

  6. R10 - 2.857

  7. R - 2.509

  8. R8 - 2.079

  9. R50 - 669

  10. R6 Mark III - 382

  11. R3 - 372

  12. R50V - 82

  13. R5C - 80

  14. R100 - 70

  15. R1 - 44

No surprises up top, I think R5, R6 Mark II and R7 is what I'd expect to find there (although the R6 Mark II and R7 being so close was interesting). The R5 Mark II is also gaining a following quickly.

I was expecting to see the R10 a bit closer to the R7, as a more budget-oriented option. The R6 Mark III also being so low was surprising - it's a new camera, but it's been around for maybe 20% of the Mark II's life, and only has around 2% of its total photos.

The R1 and R3 were also much lower than I initially expected, but then I recalled their price.

And the R8 takes the 8th place.

Posted Jul 29, 2026, 12:56 PM UTC

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