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Will you cancel your M5 pre-order after seeing the A6500?

Started Oct 6, 2016 | Polls thread
UCSB
UCSB Contributing Member • Posts: 993
Situation is more complicated than just Yes or No.

I have the M and M3. I also have the M5 on pre-order. Will I cancel my order based solely on the A6500 ... no. I am likely to pick up the M5. But after the M5 was introduced, I was disappointed that it did not have 4K video and had ALREADY decided that I would pickup another body/system that supported this feature. The A6500 can go on that list as a possible additional purchase. Although I will probably go with a higher end camera than the A6500, if I go to the work of picking up a second system. From my perspective it is a reasonable decision to buy the M5 to use with my 22 Canon lenses ... even if it has some shortcomings that I end up adding another system to fill.  It makes more economic sense to me to add the M5 body than to start replacing my lenses just to get another body.  Just the 11-22 alone probably destroys the logic of abandoning the M system.

So from my perspective it comes down to a decision of whether I buy the additional system before the M5, buy the M5 first or buy them at the same time. Well ... since the M5 isn't available until the end of Nov, I have time to think it through. If Sony discounts the A7RII going into the holiday's, I will probably just pick it up for my second system.

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> Bill.

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