The 10 Most Important Canon EOS Digital Cameras of All-Time

[mangobutter]

Shot Canon since 2002 ish, and starting in 2005 with the large sensor stuff (5D).

I've thought about this topic recently, in terms of the most impactful Canon large sensor cameras.

Here's mine starting w/ my personal experience/timeline 2005 forward:

5D Classic - this made full frame "affordable." though still expensive. if you shot this camera back in the day, you were a rockstar.
5D II - For video stuff.
Rebel XS - I believe this is when digital large sensor photography as a whole became affordable and popular and the gateway drug to building a Canon system.
EOS M - mirrorless
6D - this was the next jump in full frame affordability -- those who got this launch day know how big a deal this camera was at the price it was launched at. the talk of the town back in the day. I got mine day 1 pre order.
Canon EOS R/RP - made FF mirrorless great again for Canon shooters and jumpstarted the R system as we know it today.

Honorable mention: EOS R5 (for high res)

I do not feel any other cameras belong on this list, however great they were. These in my opinion are paradigm shifts, monumental leaps forward, vs. incremental evolutions.

 

[Baywoof]

For some of us who owned a 5Ds/r (sold it to buy the R5), I take your arrogant and snobby remarks as someone who never took the time and effort to shoot with that camera. For me, the 5D s/r was an significant upgrade to the 5D M2 I previously owned. Perhaps you're in the "12mp is good enough" camp like many so called camera pundits. I sometimes wish I still had that camera, but you have to let go of things to get something else and move on.