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r/Cameras

A place to discuss photographic and videographic equipment, from cameras and lenses to enlargers and projectors. News, rumours, buying advice, and troubleshooting. Founded 2009 · 338.1K members

340K members. The best post we have captured here reached 13.2K upvotes, which works out to 39 per 1,000 members.

39peak upvotes per 1,000 members
340Kmembers
13.2Kbest post
728most comments
402posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

24% 24% 22% 14% 9%
Image 24% Text 24% Gallery 22% Question 14% Link 9% Video 6%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Questions 109 Recommendations 84 Tech Support 53 :images: Camera Collection 40 Discussion 39 Other 21 Photos 14 MEME/Satire 13 News 8 Dead Digicam 🥲 6

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Found this at the thrift store today for $10. Still in shock.

↑ 13.2K 💬 658 gallery 2025

New Camera

↑ 12K 💬 102 image 2026

The tiny DSLR and the deep space images it captured.

↑ 11.1K 💬 335 gallery 2025

My camera setup for MACRO photography and a few photo samples

↑ 10.5K 💬 392 gallery 2026

Tiny lens for tiny things

↑ 10.1K 💬 253 gallery 2025

Last photo my Camera took before it wouldn't take anymore. Am I cooked?

↑ 6.4K 💬 221 image 2025

Dad’s killer camera collection

↑ 5.9K 💬 157 gallery 2025

Found this camera bag at Atlantic trail head last night.

↑ 5.4K 💬 402 gallery 2026

A list of iconic photography and the cameras they were taken with.

↑ 4.7K 💬 64 link 2026

Photographer John Abernathy throws his camera to another photographer to prevent ICE from taking it

↑ 4.7K 💬 180 image 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/Cameras, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/Cameras?
r/Cameras describes itself this way: A place to discuss photographic and videographic equipment, from cameras and lenses to enlargers and projectors. News, rumours, buying advice, and troubleshooting. It was founded in 2009 and has 338.1K members.
How many members does r/Cameras have?
r/Cameras has about 340K members. ViralHunt has tracked 402 of its posts; the biggest reached 13.2K upvotes, which is 39 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Cameras?
"Found this at the thrift store today for $10. Still in shock." reached 13.2K upvotes and 658 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Cameras.
What subreddits are similar to r/Cameras?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/Cameras?
Of the posts we hold, 24% are image posts and 24% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Cameras?
Across 402 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 09:00 UTC (2.1K avg upvotes), Sunday at 22:00 UTC (2K avg upvotes), Monday at 15:00 UTC (1.6K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/Cameras?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Cameras has 3.5K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 139 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/Cameras, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.