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How should I resolve my birding GAS?

Started 5 months ago | Polls thread
OP User1303423862 Senior Member • Posts: 1,070
Re: How should I resolve my birding GAS?

Larry Rexley wrote:

User1303423862 wrote:

StevenSHH wrote:

M6 Mark II is not bad, but if you are really serious about birding - get the R7 , sell the R, maybe with M6 and other lense

R7's crop factor helps with reach and the AF is just next generation stuff.

Good Luck!

I know the R7 is state of the art for AF, but I'm reluctant to sell my M gear and get locked into a system using heavy full frame lenses or rehashed M lenses (at higher prices) with no native third party options to provide price competition and wider choice.

I like advanced tech, but hate being led by the nose.

I'm with you... I once calculated how much it would cost for me to move to 'R' and get 'similar' bodies and a comparable lens system. I shoot with 2 m6ii's and 2 M200's, and 14 lenses plus TCs and speed boosters. The 'upgrade' cost is well over $10,000!! I have spent less than $5000 on my entire system to date. The upgrade cost seems insane and it would be a far larger, heavier system - to get images that would be almost no different than what I get today with 'M' and DxO.

Sure the autofocus of the R7 is state of the art, but the M6ii and even M200 autofocus is also excellent for 95% of my uses. That extra 5% is not enough to warrant such a vast price difference.

Secondhand price on the M6ii is almost as high as new at the moment, and I don't think that'll change much anytime soon. I might buy my first ever brand new ILC.

I've found a possible lens option too. The Canon EF 70-300mm f4-5.6 IS II USM is as quick to focus as the RX 100-400, and I could use it on both the M6ii and EOS R at full resolution. It's a gamble so far as birding goes, because Canon say it isn't TC compatible. As you and I know, Canon may just be saying that for commercial reasons, rather than optical/mechanical reasons. But even if I can't get a TC to work with it, I could have a lot of fun at the motorcycle race circuits and up in the hills getting dramatic landscape angles. And squirrels, of course.

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