The past decade has been an important decade for the photographic technology industry, with innovations in digital imaging. With these technologies, how to erase part of a shape in Illustrator is easier.

Mirrorless devices

As with mirrorless technology, camera video technology debuted in 2008 with the Nikon D90, but in the 2010s it became a mandatory, if not basic, feature for many camera developments. With the evolution of journalism, commercial imaging, and the arts in general, communication fields have shifted towards multimedia, and cameras have evolved to meet this need to cover the photo-video area.

In the early stages, the video features added to the devices were an innovation, but now they are one of the highlights.

Smartphones

Smartphones are probably the technology that had the biggest impact in the 2010s. They revolutionized what you expect from a camera today.

It will be interesting to see how much smartphone technology will evolve in terms of imaging.

CMOS sensors

CMOS sensors have been around since the 2000s, but the last decade has seen the slow demise of CCDs and led to the monopoly of CMOS sensors.

Almost all photographers have benefited from this move to CMOS sensors. They consume lesser power than CCDs, reduced lag, and have faster reading speed. They are less expensive and simpler to implement in an imaging system.

The instant film

Digital has been trying to replace film for the last 20 years, but it has really gained popularity in the last 10 years and has carved an exceptional but serious niche in the photography world.

The film is not a new technological innovation, however, its presence as something interesting is a new idea. Fujifilm, Polaroid, Kodak, and many others had to work on innovating film photography from a branding and marketing standpoint, and they succeeded. Instant film was one of the best-selling products in the mid-2010s in the entire photography industry.

Body image stabilization

In-body image stabilization is probably the most important innovation on this list as well as one of the most defining for device development in the last decade. It started appearing on a few devices in the late 2000s, yet became a main feature in the mid-2010s.

Drones

Drones are no longer extremely expensive and specialized equipment to affordable and widely used imaging tools, and their technology continues to evolve.