Reports
235 bodies and 59 lenses tracked. Reports computed across the body subset.
Depreciation curve
Each dot is one camera body. X = years since release. Y = current cheapest used price as a percentage of launch MSRP. Hover for the model.
Value retention by brand
Median depreciation across each brand's tracked bodies, sorted with strongest value retention at top. Annualized largely cancels body-age effects. Brands with fewer than 2 qualifying bodies are omitted.
See Methods notes #2.1, #2.2, #2.3.
Bodies by sensor format
See Methods note #3.1.
Bodies by mount
See Methods note #4.1.
Status mix
Lifecycle distribution of tracked bodies. "current" = released within 4 years, otherwise heuristic.
See Methods note #5.1.
Family clusters
Top families by tracked count, with average MSRP and median % of MSRP.
| Family | Brand | # bodies | Avg MSRP | Median % of MSRP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olympus PEN | Olympus | 18 | $718 | 50% |
| Panasonic | Panasonic | 17 | $731 | 70% |
| Panasonic Lumix G | Panasonic | 14 | $920 | 38% |
| Sony RX | Sony | 12 | $1,116 | 78% |
| Olympus OM-D | Olympus | 11 | $1,290 | 46% |
| Sony Alpha | Sony | 11 | $3,190 | 65% |
| Fujifilm X-T | Fujifilm | 9 | $1,255 | 70% |
| Nikon Z | Nikon | 9 | $2,118 | 71% |
| Panasonic Lumix GH | Panasonic | 9 | $1,777 | 43% |
| Panasonic Lumix S | Panasonic | 9 | $2,710 | 65% |
| Canon PowerShot G | Canon | 8 | $778 | 136% |
| Canon EOS R | Canon | 7 | $2,222 | 79% |
| Leica M | Leica | 7 | $8,031 | 84% |
| Nikon D-series Pro | Nikon | 7 | $6,242 | 8% |
| Canon EOS 5D | Canon | 6 | $3,432 | 13% |
| Fujifilm X100 | Fujifilm | 6 | $1,349 | 121% |
| Fujifilm X-E | Fujifilm | 5 | $1,089 | 73% |
| Panasonic Lumix LX | Panasonic | 5 | $719 | 97% |
| Canon EOS-1D | Canon | 4 | $6,824 | 4% |
| Leica SL | Leica | 4 | $6,334 | 38% |
How each report is computed
Cross-references are linked from each report above. Numbers map to the report order on the page.
1. Depreciation curve
- #1.1 · % of MSRP
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Computed as
current_low / msrp_usd × 100.current_lowis the lowest used-market price observed in our most recent pull, andmsrp_usdis launch list price in USD, not adjusted for inflation. A $1,000-MSRP body now selling for $400 reads as 40%. - #1.2 · Years since release
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Calendar year only:
current_year − released_year. A body released December 2024 and one from January 2024 are both 2 years old in 2026.
2. Average % of MSRP, by brand
- #2.1 · Median, not mean
- Each bar is the median of the selected metric across the brand's tracked bodies. Median dampens the effect of one outlier body skewing the brand. Brands are sorted with strongest value retention at the top of the chart in both views.
- #2.2 · Metric choice and age bias
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Two metrics are available via the toggle.
% of MSRP is the raw
current_low / msrp_usdratio: easy to read, but it doesn't control for body age, so brands with older tracked bodies show steeper apparent depreciation simply because those bodies have had more years to drop. Annualized depreciation is the geometric per-year drop,1 − (pct_msrp / 100) ^ (1 / years_since_release), which largely cancels age effects: a 2-year-old body at 80% and a 6-year-old at 50% both register around 11% per year. The annualized view requires a release year and excludes bodies released in the current year (where the formula explodes near zero), so the sample of bodies and brands feeding the chart can differ slightly between the two views. The page defaults to annualized. - #2.3 · Minimum sample
- Brands with fewer than 2 tracked bodies are omitted, since a one-body median is just that body.
3. Bodies by sensor format
- #3.1 · Sensor taxonomy
- Formats are bucketed by the manufacturer's stated sensor category, normalized to one label per family. Sub-1-inch sensors stay split into their separate sizes (1/1.63, 1/1.7, 1/2.3) because the difference matters at that end.
4. Bodies by mount
- #4.1 · Mount normalization
- The body's native lens mount as listed by the manufacturer. Adapters and dual-mount cameras are recorded under the primary mount only.
5. Status mix
- #5.1 · Status heuristic
- "Current" applies to bodies released within the last 4 years. Older bodies are categorized "likely_discontinued" or "discontinued" based on availability signals. The 4-year window is a rule of thumb, not a manufacturer announcement, and may misclassify long-lived models like the Sony A7 III.
6. Family clusters
- #6.1 · Family derivation
- Family is the manufacturer's product line label (for example, "Sony A7" or "Fuji X-T"). Bodies sharing a family are typically iterations of the same line.
- #6.2 · Top 20 cap
- The table shows the 20 families with the most tracked bodies. Smaller families still feed all upstream charts.