The headlines for 2015: DSLRs are disappearing, technologies are transforming video and photography—and you shoot almost everything with your phone. To support that first claim, consider that the $700 Canon PowerShot G7 X (page 64) can capture 6.5 frames per second, the same as DSLRs costing five times as much. Like every still camera here, it ditches heavy mechanical innards for mirrorless digital systems, so you get a smaller device that does just as much. Other tech leaps allow the Gear of the Year–winning Nikon 1 V3 to shoot video at an incredible 1,200 frames per second and the Lytro Illum (page 65) to capture every detail in the frame—from a grain of sand on the beach to a ship in the harbor—as if it were the focal point of the shot. And phone photography? It’s all about the apps.—Michael Frank