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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.

If your camera model does not feature in this list it does not necessarily mean that it is unsuitable - some cameras produce very borderline results so we do not feature on either of our lists. If you can't see your camera on this list and would like to know if it is acceptable please email memberservices@alamy.com and they will be able to provide you with the information you require.

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

All medium format backs produce high quality images acceptable by us.

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

Last updated 09 May 2013.

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