ti1 upgrade to t7i/77D - big difference?

Thanks for your response. Here are two pictures that were taken in challenging light conditions.  I pushed them both pretty far in Lightroom after shooting in Raw.  I'm not entirely happy with the results and wonder if a better sensor might have given me the extra leeway.

Woody W. wrote:

steve6543 wrote:

I've got a t1i and a handful of lenses. I was thinking of the following upgrade paths:

T7i/77D (cheapest path since I can keep all my glass)

Sony Alpha 6500 (lightest option and the image quality appears better than the t7i)

Sony Alpha 7II (the best image quality of the bunch but the most expensive and the lenses can get quite heavy)

Obviously staying with Canon is nice because I get to keep my lenses but I don't want to put good money after bad if Sony is going to continue to deliver the best sensors.

OK. Let's stop here for a moment. I call false premise "good money after bad". Just because product A is "best" at one measureable specification, doesn't mean that anything else is "bad". Every SLR/ILC sensor made today is so freaking awesome that you will almost certainly be thrilled with the day to day image quality. Heck, even the 15MP Canon sensor in your camera was (and is still) no slouch subjectively for day to day imagery.

DPReview has been harping all over "ISO Invariance" and "dynamic range" recently because virtually every spec of almost all of the sensors today are so good in 99.98% of real-world photographic situations that they had to find SOME measurable way beyond pixel count to differentiate them.

In addition, there are a lot of other factors to consider besides the sensor, such as how the camera feels in your hands, and how intuitive you find the controls.

My main question right now: Given that the t7i is the same sensor size and same manufacturer as my ti1, am I actually going to notice an image quality difference or would I be better off just using my ti1 for now until I am ready to make a much bigger change?

The real question is, what is driving the change? What is the weakness you are noticing in your images today that you are hoping to address?

I primarily shoot handheld nature/landscape/adventure sport photos so I am constantly going into raw files to work with the highlights and shadows. I'm also constantly striving for as much detail as possible.

Do you get enough of that detail? If you are pushing things, then any of the latest generation camera sensors will give you a lot more room to play, as well as greater native sensitivity so you might not actually need to do it as often.

I don't do video now (the video features on the ti1 are painful,) but I could see myself starting to do video if my next camera was capable.

Again, this area has improved substantially across camera brands and models.